Researchers discover first stable catalyst to produce hydrogen from ethanol

In the UK, researchers published a new method for generating hydrogen fuel from ethanol in this month’s issue of ChemSusChem. The research team from the University of Aberdeen said that it had created the first stable catalyst that can generate hydrogen from ethanol. The process also creates CO2, but on a sustainable basis because the ethanol is itself produced from CO2-absorbing plants.

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