OPTIMISATION OF STABLE HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR FUEL CELLS, ELECTROLYSERS AND REGENERATIVE CELLS

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Tenerife (NUTS ES709); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 181,500; EU co-financing EUR 154,275 (co-financing rate 85%), as stated by the source. Runs 2018-01-01 to 2021-09-30. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): IN ORDER TO BREAK THROUGH THE BARRIER OF 80% GRID ELECTRICITY AND ESTABLISH A PATH TOWARD FOSSIL-FREE AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE AND CONVERSION DEVICES USING H2 AS A FLEXIBLE ENERGY CARRIER OBTAINED FROM RENEWABLE ENERGIES, IS OF GREAT INTEREST. IN THIS CONTEXT, WATER ELECTROLYZERS, FUEL CELLS AND REGENERATIVE FUEL CELLS STAND OUT FOR THEIR HIGH EFFICIENCY IN ENERGY CONVERSION. IN THE PRESENT PROJECT, A SERIES OF NEW HYBRID COMPOSITE MATERIALS WILL BE PREPARED TO STUDY THE REACTIONS OCCURRING AT THE ELECTRODES OF THESE DEVICES: HYDROGEN EVOLUTION (HER) AND OXYGEN EVOLUTION (OER) IN ELECTROLYZERS AND REGENERATIVE CELLS; AND OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION (ORR) AND HYDROGEN OXIDATION (HOR) IN BOTH FUEL CELLS. HYBRID COMPOSITES CONSTITUTED BY CARBON MATERIALS DOPED WITH HETEROATOMS (S, N, P) AND OTHER INORGANIC COMPOUNDS SUCH AS METAL CARBIDES, WILL BE SYNTHESIZED AND THE EFFECT OF THE PRESENCE OF IONIC LIQUIDS ON THE ACTIVITY AND STABILITY OF THE RESULTING COMPOSITES (SINCE IT CAN ACT SIMPLY AS A BINDER OR AS A CATALYST) STUDIED IN BOTH BASIC AND ACIDIC MEDIUM. THE CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS WILL ALSO BE STUDIED. FINALLY, NON-NOBLE METALS WILL BE INTRODUCED AS POSSIBLE CATALYSTS (CU, FE, NI, MO). IN THIS WAY, IT IS INTENDED TO INCREASE THE ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY AVOIDING THE USE OF NOBLE METALS, WHICH WILL LEAD TO A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE OF CATALYSTS COST IN THESE DEVICES. MATERIALS WILL BE CHARACTERIZED STRUCTURALLY BY X-RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD), SCANNING ELECTRON (SEM), TRANSMISSION (TEM) AND SCANNING TUNNELING (STM) MICROSCOPIES, ENERGY DISPERSIVE MICROANALYSIS (EDS) AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY (RM). ALSO, TEXTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL GROUPS ANALYSIS WILL BE PERFORMED BY ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS OF APPROPRIATE PROBE MOLECULES. THE CHEMISTRY OF CARBON MATERIALS WILL BE STUDIED BY TEMPERATURE-PROGRAMMED DESORPTION (TPD), X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY (XPS) AND ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS. THE ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY OF THE [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on optimizing hybrid nanocomposite electrocatalysts for fuel cells, electrolyzers, and regenerative cells, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 181,500. It ran from January 1, 2018, to September 30, 2021, in Tenerife, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.