Advances in Catalysts for the Sustainable Hydrogen Production

Dear Colleagues,

Hydrogen as a clean energy vector is finally becoming a reality, with significant investments being devoted to the creation of commercially available vehicles and to the development of distribution networks worldwide. In this transformation of the energy paradigm, the role of catalysis is pivotal as a means for developing adequate processes to produce blue and/or green hydrogen from renewable resources. The presence of noble metals in these catalysts is unfortunately still relevant and, in some cases, unavoidable. Efforts have been directed at replacing or, at least, reducing the content of noble elements, but too often, the performances shown by these catalysts are unsatisfactory both in terms of catalytic activity and stability. This makes research on reducing the content of noble metal, possibly up their total replacement without scarifying catalytic performances, of utmost importance for entering a truly sustainable hydrogen economy. In this view, the rational design of heterogeneous catalysts via advanced synthetic approaches which enable fine-tuning their morphological and structural features at nanoscale level has resulted in a huge contribution to this goal.

This Special Issue aims to cover the most recent progress and advances in the development of catalysts for sustainable hydrogen production processes (e.g., water electrolysis, gasification or reforming of biomass and/or biomass-derived compounds) which are free of noble metals or where their content is lower than that of benchmark catalysts. The Issue is open to both original research papers and reviews.

Dr. Filippo Bossola
Dr. Claudio Evangelisti
Dr. Vladimiro Dal Santo
Guest Editors

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• Hydrogen
• Heterogeneous catalysts
• Noble metal-free
• Sustainability
• Reforming
• Water electrolysis
• Gasification
• Biomass