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Funding for Sun Catalytix to make hydrogen from cheap solar panels
Production, Nov 24 2009 (The Hydrogen Journal)
- Cambridge, Massachusetts company Sun Catalytix has got $1m seed funding from Polaris Ventures to develop a way to make hydrogen from low cost solar panels.
The company builds on the research of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Daniel Nocera, to try to develop a process similar to photosynthesis.
The most important aspect of the technology is the catalyst, which can help use solar power to split water to make hydrogen.
The system is being designed so it can be made with low cost materials and with any kind of water, including dirty river water or salt water.
It uses a cobalt phosphate catalyst, which is much cheaper than the platinum catalyst used in other systems.
Last month, the company also won $4m funding from the US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).
