SPRINT Spotlight

Delivered in partnership with the Henry Royce Institute and the Royce Hydrogen Accelerator, the inaugural UK-HyRES SPRINT funding call has supported 15 Early Career Researcher-led projects, selected from 86 applications. With awards of up to £50,000 per project, the programme is accelerating innovative research across hydrogen production, storage, distribution and use, strengthening connections across the UK hydrogen research community

Explore the UK-HyRES SPRINT-funded projects helping to advance early-career hydrogen research below.

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Sepideh Aliasghari, University of Manchester

Project: Defect-Tuned Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) in Hydrogen Charged Environment, Open New Path for Hydrogen Valves

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Lin Su, Queen Mary University London

Project: Living Semiconductors for Green Hydrogen: Biosynthesis and Self-Regeneration of Nanoparticles at Engineered Bio-Abiotic Interfaces

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Connor Sherwin, University of Oxford

Project: Tracking Electrochemical Degradation in PEM Water Electrolysers

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Shu Wang, University of St Andrews

Project: Next-Generation Green Methanol: Enhancing Biogas Conversion through Solid Oxide Cells

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Luke Woodliffe, University of Nottingham

Project: Nanoconfined Reactive Hydrides for Advanced Solid-State Hydrogen Storage

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Shiqi Huang, University of Bath

Project: Energy-Efficient Hydrogen Purification: Engineering Nanopores in Atomically Thin Membrane

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