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Under SPARC project, IIT Madras Researchers are collaborating with their counterparts in Germany to develop new materials for green energy solutions.
The project aims at developing alternative technologies to produce green hydrogen in anticipation of transition to hydrogen-based economy.
N.V. Ravi Kumar of the Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the institute, is collaborating with Sanjay Mathur, Chair of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany and other researchers.
Water Electrolysis
As per Mathur, Conventional methods of generating hydrogen result in a large quantity of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that imposed serious environmental concerns. Whereas electrochemical splitting of water, called ‘Water Electrolysis’ (WE), is clean, facile, and highly efficient technology for large-scale production of high-purity H2.
Through this international collaboration scientists aim to develop novel low cost electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reactions
About SPARC
The Scheme for Promotion of academic and Research Collaboration or SPARC, is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
SPARC scheme aims at improving the research ecosystem of India’s higher educational institutions by facilitating academic and research collaborations between Indian Institutions and the best institutions in the world.
Around ₹66 lakh has been allocated for the project.
