Dalhousie University

Purpose

Sustainable production of green hydrogen via water electrolysis will be challenging if it relies on expensive catalyst materials and high purity water. This Project aims to develop AI tools to identify promising earth-abundant catalysts. These will be synthesized, characterized and their performance will be evaluated under standardized conditions which is the first step in practically moving towards next generation electrolyzers. The impact of various ions and organic matter present in less pure water on the catalyst performance and stability will be evaluated. By identifying fouling and degradation mechanisms, optimum catalyst materials can be selected in the future to build a robust electrolyzer. The Project intends to advance the development of earth-abundant catalysts based electrolyzers from TRL 1 (current) to TRL 3.