Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that the research team of Professors Jeyong Yoon and Jaeyune Ryu from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, in collaboration with Professor Jang Yong Lee’s team from Konkuk University’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has developed a new water electrolysis operation strategy that can produce green hydrogen without complex catalyst manufacturing processes.

The research team presented the possibility of significantly increasing hydrogen production efficiency without the use of precious metal-based catalysts. As a result, this research outcome is expected to be a technological turning point that accelerates the realization of a carbon-neutral society.

These findings were published on May 23th in the world-renowned journal Nature Communications under the title “Dynamic polarization control of Ni electrodes for sustainable and scalable water electrolysis under alkaline conditions.”

One of Earth's most common nanomaterials is facilitating breakthroughs in tackling climate change: clay. In a new study, researchers at Purdue University, in collaboration with experts from Sandia National Laboratories, have potentially uncovered a game-changing method for using clay to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air to help mitigate climate change. Their work, which earned them a 2024 R&D 100 Award and has a patent application in progress, was recently published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

A team of chemists at the University of Cambridge has developed a powerful method for adding single carbon atoms to molecules more easily, offering a simple one-step approach that could accelerate drug discovery and the design of complex chemical products.