A team of researchers led by Dr. Feng-Yuan Zhang recently received a $2 million grant to decrease the cost to produce hydrogen, with a second grant of $1.2 million going to a UT-led team for research on more efficient fuel cells. Zhang and his team will focus on reducing the cost to produce fuel cells by finding ways to improve the process of hydrogen splitting from oxygen in water in hydrogen batteries.
Governor’s Chair for Electrical Energy Conversion and Storage at UT-ORNL Thomas Zawodzinski will lead the second team of researchers as they focus on developing a fuel cell that produces hydrogen peroxide as waste, instead of water.