Researchers have taken a step towards creating a low carbon process to make hydrogen fuel on an industrial scale, in a move that could have major implications for the nascent hydrogen fuel industry. The innovative process promises to create a material which can better catalyse the production of hydrogen from water, reducing the cost and environmental impact of production. In a paper published last month in the journal Nature Chemistry, researchers described how they used a new process to produce an altered version of the enzyme hydrogenase – a biological material which can be used as a catalyst to split water to produce hydrogen and oxygen – which they strengthened by enclosing it in a protective protein capsid.
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