Pajarito Powder Releases Engineered Electrolyzer Catalyst (EEC)

Iridium Oxide electrolyzer catalyst performance

Pajarito Powder’s newly released Engineered Electrolyzer Catalysts (EEC) provide a notable improvement in electrolyzer efficiency and performance. New publicly available data recently released on the performance of two specific products reflects advancements made in catalysts materials and progress toward major cost reductions.

Pajarito Powder manufactures high-performance electrolyzer catalysts explicitly designed for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM), AEM, and alkaline systems. These products consist of PGM, supported-PGM, and PGM-free catalysts available in 10 g to 1 kg batch-levels. High quality production platinum black and pre-production iridium oxide products explicitly designed for electrochemical applications
are available with electrochemical-relevant specifications.

Nitrogen physisorption analysis using Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) shows high surface area of platinum black (bottom) and iridium oxide (top) electrolyzer catalysts:

X-Ray Diffractogram (XRD) illustrates homogeneous crystal structure of Pt black (top) and iridium oxide (bottom):

Pajarito Powder is developing electrolyzer catalysts under an ARPA-E cooperative agreement (Award DE-AR0000688) and offering evaluation and pre-production catalyst samples to select customers and partners.

  • • Developing precious metal-free fuel cell/electrolyzer catalysts and electrodes
    • Target of USD $50/kW
    • 8x cost reduction versus state-of-the-art
    • Markets for products: power generation coolant, high value chemicals, back-up power, transportation, and energy storage
  • Partners: Proton OnSite, EWII Fuel Cells, Northeastern University, University of New Mexico with Pajarito Powder as Awardee.

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