March 17, 2026 12:18 PM
IIT Guwahati Researchers create material for sustainable hydrogen and drinking water solutions
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati have developed a new material that can generate hydrogen fuel through the electrolysis of water. Although overall water splitting requires a thermodynamic potential of 1.23 V, this material demonstrates an ultralow Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) overpotential of only 12 mV, outperforming the commercial Pt/C electrode, thus highlighting its outstanding electrocatalytic performance. In addition, the same material is also shown to supp...