Russian scientists have found a way to get "green" hydrogen quickly and cheaply

Scientists from ITMO have developed an innovative reactor for water electrolysis, which can simplify the production of hydrogen. The new technology accelerates the process of its production by six times and reduces energy consumption by 15%. The key innovation is the use of magnetically modified electrodes coated with iron and cobalt nanoparticles.

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"Magnetic nanoparticles affect the electronic state of water intermediates so that they react faster and more efficiently. This reduces the amount of energy consumed to activate these processes," Ilya Shabalkin, a graduate student at the chemical and biological cluster and a junior researcher at ITMO, told Izvestia.

According to the researchers' calculations, the production of one kilogram of hydrogen in the new electrolyzer requires not 57.3 kWh of electricity, but 48.8 kWh.
The basic operating principle of the reactor remains the same: an electric current splits water molecules into hydrogen (at the cathode) and oxygen (at the anode) in an alkaline solution. The new ITMO development makes this process much more efficient, which could be an important step towards creating affordable hydrogen energy, experts say.

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