Closing the Loop on Critical Raw Materials for Green Hydrogen

Green hydrogen is set to become a cornerstone of Europe's energy transition - and proton exchange membrane water electrolysers (PEMWE) will be at the heart of its large-scale production. Yet today's PEMWE technology depends on critical raw materials (CRMs) (e.g. Iridium (Ir), Fluorine, (F)), exposing the Hydrogen Economy to supply chain risks and environmental burdens that threaten its long-term sustainability and large scale deployment viability.

Our mission: make the materials behind green hydrogen as sustainable as the hydrogen itself.

We are developing a novel, low-impact approach to recovering CRM from PEMWE (e.g. at End-of-Life), and putting them straight back to work. By uniting computational modelling, materials chemistry, and electrochemical engineering, we optimise every step of the recovery–reuse–performance chain, aiming to demonstrate low-CRM, high-performance electrodes through innovative design and fabrication.

From recovery to redeployment

Our approach doesn't stop at recycling. Recovered materials are re-engineered into next-generation electrodes that match or exceed the performance of their virgin-material counterparts - proving that circularity and cutting-edge performance can go hand in hand. And because the challenge of CRM dependence extends well beyond electrolysis, our methods are designed to transfer to other electrochemical technologies, from fuel cells to the wider clean-tech landscape.