A team at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a new type of stainless steel that could overcome a major limitation of conventional stainless steel and potentially lower the cost of producing green hydrogen.
Led by Professor Mingxin Huang of HKU's Department of Mechanical Engineering, the researchers created stainless steel for hydrogen (SS-H2), a material designed to resist severe corrosion under conditions that ordinary stainless steel cannot withstand.
The advance is the latest result from Huang's "Super Steel" Project. His team previously developed stainless steel with anti COVID properties in 2021, along with exceptionally strong and tough forms of Super Steel in 2017 and 2020.
A New Steel for Green Hydrogen
SS-H2 is particularly promising because of its resistance to corrosion. That property could make it useful in systems that produce green hydrogen using seawater, an area where researchers are still searching for practical and sustainable technologies.
