TY - JOUR
T1 - Advanced pathways for hydrogen production
T2 - a collective view from a technical experts meeting
AU - Chou, Katherine J.
AU - Acevedo, Yaset
AU - Agbo, Peter
AU - Bayon, Alicia
AU - Beliaev, Alexander S.
AU - Beyenal, Haluk
AU - Croft, Trevor
AU - Elgowainy, Amgad
AU - Esposito, Daniel V.
AU - Falter, Christoph
AU - Ginley, David S.
AU - Haussener, Sophia
AU - Hu, Shu
AU - Koepf, Erik
AU - Kumar, Dhananjay
AU - Lidor, Alon
AU - Logan, Bruce E.
AU - Loutzenhiser, Peter
AU - Mandalika, Anurag S.
AU - Maness, Pin Ching
AU - Meyer, Gerald J.
AU - Nathan, Graham J.
AU - Rossi, Ruggero
AU - Stechel, Ellen B.
AU - Sundstrom, Eric R.
AU - Warren, Emily
AU - Wendt, Lynn M.
AU - Xiang, C. X.
AU - McDaniel, Anthony H.
AU - Houle, Frances A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2026
PY - 2026/4/10
Y1 - 2026/4/10
N2 - Hydrogen is an essential fuel and feedstock that can be produced in multiple ways to meet requirements for technological sectors that include energy storage, transportation, petroleum refining, and ammonia synthesis. To consider the future state of hydrogen manufacturing, a team of experts has assembled and examined three emerging hydrogen production technologies – photoelectrochemical, biological, and thermochemical. Each of these emerging technologies holds significant long-term potential for cost reduction while lowering industrial emissions associated with conventional methods of hydrogen manufacture (e.g., steam methane reforming) by using sunlight and renewable resources as primary sources of energy and feedstock, respectively. All three are currently at low technology readiness levels, however their applications, cost reduction opportunities and performance improvement pathways are under active development. In this work, opportunities and outlook for research that can directly advance the technologies are discussed.
AB - Hydrogen is an essential fuel and feedstock that can be produced in multiple ways to meet requirements for technological sectors that include energy storage, transportation, petroleum refining, and ammonia synthesis. To consider the future state of hydrogen manufacturing, a team of experts has assembled and examined three emerging hydrogen production technologies – photoelectrochemical, biological, and thermochemical. Each of these emerging technologies holds significant long-term potential for cost reduction while lowering industrial emissions associated with conventional methods of hydrogen manufacture (e.g., steam methane reforming) by using sunlight and renewable resources as primary sources of energy and feedstock, respectively. All three are currently at low technology readiness levels, however their applications, cost reduction opportunities and performance improvement pathways are under active development. In this work, opportunities and outlook for research that can directly advance the technologies are discussed.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105035404105
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/1fb72930-3aae-3c91-a45c-ee405df64fdd/
U2 - 10.1039/d5ee04503g
DO - 10.1039/d5ee04503g
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:105035404105
SN - 1754-5692
VL - 19
SP - 2507
EP - 2535
JO - Energy and Environmental Science
JF - Energy and Environmental Science
IS - 8
ER -