From materials to applications.
A selection of national and European projects in energy conversion, protective coatings, and functional materials.
Durable solid oxide electrolysis for green hydrogen
Funding: Clean Energy Transition Partnership · Joint Call 2024
Combining impurity-tolerant cells, coated steel interconnects, and AC:DC operation to improve the durability and cost of hydrogen production.
Sea4VoltDirect seawater electrolysis for green hydrogen
Funding: Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking · Horizon Europe · Grant 101192235
Developing a low-temperature anion exchange membrane electrolyser that can use seawater directly, reducing reliance on freshwater resources.
Protective coatings for lower-cost solid oxide cells
Funding: NCN OPUS 25 · UMO-2023/49/B/ST8/03265
Developing multilayer coatings that could allow widely available ferritic steels to replace specialist interconnect alloys.
Lead-free materials for ultrasonic actuators
Funding: NCN · M-ERA.NET Call 2022
Investigating defective metal oxides as a next generation of lead-free piezoelectric materials.
A scalable electrolysis stack prototype
Funding: Gdańsk Tech · IDUB VHR
Research towards a scalable and efficient electrolysis stack at Gdańsk University of Technology.
A research collaboration across Poland and Lithuania
Funding: Daina 2
A collaboration between Kaunas University of Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, and Gdańsk University of Technology.
Understanding the lifetime of porous alloys
Funding: NCN · 2018/30/E/ST8/00821
Studying high-temperature oxidation and the relationship between alloy composition, microstructure, and lifetime.