Professor Park Jung-won / Courtesy of Seoul National University
A joint research team from Seoul National University and Stanford University has developed a next-generation catalyst technology that dramatically improves hydrogen production efficiency while sharply reducing costs, a breakthrough that could accelerate the commercialization of clean hydrogen energy, the Ministry of Science and ICT said Friday.
The study, published in the journal Science, introduces a platinum cluster catalyst engineered with atomic-level precision, allowing researchers to reduce platinum use to one-tenth that of existing commercial catalysts while improving both hydrogen output and durability.
The international team was led by Park Jung-won, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University, along with Stanford University professors Thomas F. Jaramillo and Matteo Cargnello.
Hydrogen is widely seen as a key clean energy source in the global transition toward carbon neutrality, but the high cost of platinum-based catalysts has remained a major obstacle to large-scale adoption.
