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GIANCE is a 3-year long project funded by Horizon Europe. It presents creative solutions to environmental challenges by establishing a comprehensive and industry-driven platform. This platform aims to design, develop, and produce the next generation of affordable, eco-friendly, lightweight, recyclable graphene and related materials(GRM)-based multifunctional composites, coatings, foams, and membranes.

A newly synthesized nanomaterial is able to increase the production of green hydrogen from biomass through the photoreforming process, which exploits sunlight to "extract" hydrogen from green waste with the help of a catalyst, in this case a new photo-catalyst based on titanium dioxide. This is the result of a recent collaboration between the University of Trieste, ICCOM-CNR, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute of Olomouc and ISM-CNR (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste).

A study published in Chem Catalysis.

#greenhydrogen #photoreforming #titaniumdioxide

The sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction is the bottleneck for the practical exploitation of water splitting. Our recent paper in Advanced Energy Materials demonstrates the potential of a core-shell structure of hydrous NiMoO₄ micro-rods conformally covered by Co₃O₄, whose performances exceed the activity of the most efficient catalysts recently published. Multiple experimental techniques consistently reveal the occurrence of an irreversible reconstruction of the catalyst during its activity that determines its highly efficient performances.

#core_shell_structure #oxygen_evolution_reaction #synchrotron