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ReviewACS applied energy materials2025

Materials Engineering for High Performance and Durability Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers.

Pablo A García-Salaberri, Lonneke van Eijk, William Bangay, Kara J Ferner, Mee H Ha, Michael Moore, Ivan Perea, Ahmet Kusoglu, Marc Secanell, Prodip K Das and 8 more

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Review in ACS applied energy materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Pablo A García-SalaberriDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Technology (ESCET), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3918-5415
Lonneke van EijkChemistry Department, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-1360
William BangayJohnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court Rd, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, U.K.
Kara J FernerDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1041-9898
Mee H HaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Michael MooreJohnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court Rd, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, U.K.
Ivan PereaEnergy Systems Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2R3, Canada.
Ahmet KusogluEnergy Conversion Group, Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2761-1050
Marc SecanellEnergy Systems Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2R3, Canada.
Prodip K DasSchool of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FB, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9096-3721
Nausir FirasDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National Fuel Cell Research Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6313-0206
Svitlana PylypenkoChemistry Department, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7982-734X
Melissa NovyJohnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court Rd, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1112-1011
Michael YandrasitsJohnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court Rd, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, U.K.
Suvash C SahaSchool of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9962-8919
Ali BayatSchool of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.
Shawn LitsterDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1973-1834
Iryna V ZenyukDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National Fuel Cell Research Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1612-0475

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWEs) are expected to play a crucial role in the global green energy transition during the 21st century. They provide a versatile and sustainable solution for generating hydrogen with very high purity in combination with renewable energies, such as solar and wind. Despite their promise, PEMWEs face several critical problems, including high costs, performance limitations, and durability challenges, particularly at low iridium (Ir) loading on the anode. Advancing next-generation PEMWEs requires extensive work on materials engineering of all cell components, including the catalyst layer (CL), membrane, porous transport layer (PTL), bipolar plate (BPP), and gasket. This task must be performed with the complementary contribution of different modeling and characterization techniques. This review presents a critical perspective from academia, research centers, and industry, mapping main developments, remaining gaps, and strategic pathways to advance PEMWE technology. A focus is devoted to key aspects, such as operation at low Ir loading, membrane durability, multiscale transport layers, porous and non-porous flow fields, multiphysics modeling, and multipurpose characterization techniques, which are thoroughly discussed. By unifying these topics, this review provides readers with the essential knowledge to grasp current developments and tackle tomorrow's challenges in PEMWE engineering.

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characterizationdesigndurabilitymaterialsmodelingPEMWEperformance

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PMID41000102
PMCPMC12458485

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