WOT launches new EU project „HYDRO-NiCE“

To achieve Europe's climate targets, society needs clean energy sources with lower CO2 emissions. Hydrogen plays a key role in this – it can power fuel cells, replace fossil fuels in heavy industry and provide clean fuels for transport. But most hydrogen today is „grey“ and is produced in a way that generates CO2. A new project addresses the „green alternative“ – splitting water with renewable energy.

This alternative is still too expensive and inefficient. Our research in the CET partnership project “HYDRO-NiCE” aims to make the process of water electrolysis cheaper and more efficient, especially in alkaline water electrolysis (AWE). The cathode offers the greatest potential for improvement here. Nickel-based cathodes with open, porous surfaces have great potential here. In the project, a process is being developed and tested in which high-performance cathode materials are produced by thermal spraying and a special etching step. The aim is to achieve greater efficiency through larger cathode surfaces and to take a step towards the effective and efficient large-scale production of green hydrogen.

We are looking forward to the project and the collaboration with our partners Universite de Technologie Belfort-Montbeliard, VZU Plzen, CMMC Material Engineering GmbH and Sunfire SE.

13.8.2025 – Projects of the professorship ( niclas.hanisch@mb… )