HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium
HydroGEN: An EMN Consortium focused on Advanced Water Splitting Materials
HydroGEN is a vastly collaborative national innovation ecosystem that partners National Laboratories, Industries and Universities to deliver technology solutions to the challenge of large-scale renewable hydrogen production. As such, this consortium is dedicated to discovering and developing functional materials capable of splitting a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen. These advanced materials are incorporated into devices that accomplish water splitting either by electrochemistry (using electrical energy), photoelectrochemistry (using solar energy akin to photosynthesis), or thermochemistry (using solar energy as heat). The consortium partners conduct R&D to reveal fundamental underpinnings of behaviours that limit material performance, and then exploit this knowledge to discover and engineer better materials. The HydroGEN core National Laboratories work closely with project partners, effectively offering the Lab’s capabilities and expertise to projects in order to accelerate early-stage materials R&D. This leverages decades-long investment by the US Department of Energy in the Labs, and creates a nucleus around which R&D communities focused on the nation’s most pressing sustainable energy challenges gather.