Sandia Energy – Much Cheaper, More Abundant Catalyst May Lower Hydrogen-Powered Car Costs

Sandia Energy – Much Cheaper, More Abundant Catalyst May Lower Hydrogen-Powered Car Costs
Sandia researchers, at the Sandia-University of New Mexico Advanced Materials Laboratory, have engineered a hydrogen-generating catalyst from commonplace molybdenum disulfide (MoS2, $0.37/g)—to supplant the current most-effective hydrogen catalyst: platinum (Pt, $1,500/g). The improved catalyst, discussed in a Nature Communications paper (Understanding catalysis in a multiphasic two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide), has released four times the amount of hydrogen ever produced by molybdenum from water.