{"id":104851,"date":"2025-10-20T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/?post_type=projects&p=104851"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:06:29","slug":"accelerate-green-hydrogen-photocatalyst-development-integration-with-high-throughput-automation-system-hydroup","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/projekty-badawcze\/accelerate-green-hydrogen-photocatalyst-development-integration-with-high-throughput-automation-system-hydroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerate green hydrogen photocatalyst development – integration with high throughput automation system – HydroUP"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Project funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) under the \u201cOPUS-30 (LAP)\u201d call<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Project number: 2025\/59\/I\/ST11\/01811
<\/strong>Total project value: 2,287,613 PLN
<\/strong>Total funding: 2,287,613 PLN
<\/strong>Project value for PORT: 1,098,000 PLN
<\/strong>Total funding for PORT: 1,098,000 PLN
<\/strong>Project leader on behalf of PORT: Dr.\u00a0Min Ying Tsang
<\/strong>Project leader on behalf of University of Zurich: Dr.\u00a0Johannes Sch\u00f6rgenhumer<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Project Consortium:<\/p>

  1. \u0141ukasiewicz Research Network \u2013 PORT Polish Center for Technology Development<\/li>
  2. University of Zurich<\/li><\/ol>

    Hydrogen is one of the top renewable energy sources owing to the relatively high specific energy. However, more than 90% hydrogen is generated from natural gas through steam methane reformation (grey hydrogen), leading to a large carbon footprint. Green hydrogen (g-H2), produced from water splitting process via electrolysis or photocatalysis, is more sustainable and fulfil the zero emission target. However, only 2% g-H2 is generated. Photocatalytic g-H2 generation is more desirable. Yet, it still remains at the early development stage. Many studies have been conducted to improve the photocatalyst performance including the use of Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). But these materials still suffer from low g-H2 production rate, light absorption and conversion efficiency, long term stability and the costly and non-sustainable chemical system (i.e. use of co-catalysts\/sacrificial agents) that limit to the proof-ofconcept stage. Furthermore, conventional optimization methods of the material composition is also time consuming and resource exhausting, hindering the development and implementation of photocatalysts.<\/p>

    To overcome the key drawbacks of current photocatalyst and accelerate optimization step, in collaboration with High Throughput Experimentation Laboratory from the University of Zurich, we proposed to develop a new type of high-performance photocatalyst with an effective loop of \u201chuman-designed\u201d photocatalyst \u2013 \u201cmachine\u201d optimization \u2013 \u201chuman\u201d validation workflow.<\/p>

    Step 1 – \u201chuman-designed\u201d photocatalyst:<\/strong> Photosensitized photon-upconversion lanthanide-doped titanium-based MOFs (DS-Ln\/Ti-MOFs) is aimed.<\/p>

    Step 2 \u2013 \u201cmachine\u201d optimization:<\/strong> High throughput automation system will be used to fully optimize the DS-Ln\/Ti-MOFs with high reproducibility and precision, reduce resources and time consumption.<\/p>

    Step 3 \u2013 \u201chuman\u201d validation:<\/strong> The optimized protocol from Step 2 will be validate and scale up for comprehensive photocatalytic g-H2 evolution assessment.<\/p>

    This three-steps workflow not only allow appropriate design and optimal usage of automation system, but also provide a continuous feedback and material validation. The combination of \u201chuman-machine\u201d workflow advances a comprehensive and effective photocatalyst development strategy, establish essential foundation for accelerating the development of optimal photocatalysts for g-H2 generation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Project funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) under the \u201cOPUS-30 (LAP)\u201d call Project number: 2025\/59\/I\/ST11\/01811Total project value: 2,287,613 PLN Total funding: 2,287,613 PLN Project value for PORT: 1,098,000 PLN Total funding for PORT: 1,098,000 PLNProject leader on behalf of PORT: Dr.\u00a0Min Ying TsangProject leader on behalf of University of Zurich: Dr.\u00a0Johannes Sch\u00f6rgenhumer Project Consortium: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":97929,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"grupy_badawcze":[621],"pozostale_projekty":[],"class_list":["post-104851","projects","type-projects","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nsc","grupy_badawcze-grupa-badawcza-funkcjonalnych-makromolekul-i-materialow-porowatych"],"acf":{"opis_projektu":""},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-10-23 08:01:27","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/104851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/104851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104864,"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/104851\/revisions\/104864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104851"},{"taxonomy":"grupy_badawcze","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grupy_badawcze?post=104851"},{"taxonomy":"pozostale_projekty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pozostale_projekty?post=104851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}