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Plasma pyrolysis for a sustainable hydrogen economy

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Producing low-carbon hydrogen to use as a clean energy carrier is an important step towards a decarbonized economy. Plasma pyrolysis is an emerging technology that has great potential for the large-scale production of low-carbon and affordable hydrogen.

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Fig. 1: Hydrogen production by plasma pyrolysis.

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The authors are thankful to K. Hendrich for her kind support during the discussion of the content of the Comment. X.T. acknowledges financial support from the UK EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account, the Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship (ref. NAF/R1/180230) and the British Council (no. 623389161).

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    Guoxing Chen, Gert Homm & Anke Weidenkaff

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Xin Tu

  3. Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Anke Weidenkaff

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5,000 tons of hydrogen per year: https://energynews.biz/monolith-to-expand-turquoise-hydrogen-plant/

Hydrogen is increasingly seen as a potentially zero-carbon and zero-pollution energy vector: https://www.iea.org/reports/the-future-of-hydrogen

Targets set in the COP26 Glasgow agreement: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cop26_auv_2f_cover_decision.pdf

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Chen, G., Tu, X., Homm, G. et al. Plasma pyrolysis for a sustainable hydrogen economy. Nat Rev Mater 7, 333–334 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00439-8

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