This Jupyter notebook serves as an introduction to electrolyzers and fuel cell technology. Users review the fundamentals of chemical reactions, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry as they relate to the electrolysis of water (water-splitting). Finally, these concepts are linked together to simulate how different electrode materials influence the overpotential as a function of current density for the hydrogen evolution reaction.

Notebook developer: Nicole Shuman (University of California, Davis)

Advisor: Susan Gentry (University of California, Davis)

Simulation data from Z. Chen et al. Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 10, 4168–4175 (doi: 10.1021./nl2020476)

All others are listed in the Jupyter notebook

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Nicole Shuman, Susan P Gentry (2021), "Materials for Hydrogen-Based Energy Conversion," https://nanohub.org/resources/hydrogenenergy. (DOI: 10.21981/FDV2-JG88).

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1. electrolyzers
2. hydrogen energy
3. materials science
4. simulation and modeling