Renewable Energy Research Center Opens at the Technical University of Denmark

A new renewable energy research center, called VILLUM Center for the Science of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals, has been inaugurated in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The new centre, located at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), will be headed by Professor Ib Chorkendorff who will bring together a team of researchers from distinguished universities, including Stanford University, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Southern Denmark, to work for the centre. The group will be developing technologies that can replace fossil energy and fuel.

Recently, DTU and the University of Copenhagen have also developed a new class of catalysts for fuel cells. Catalysts are materials that have surfaces that can increase the speed of chemical processes. These catalysts can also convert different forms of sustainable energy into chemical energy that can be stored. With further evaluation and studies from the new research center, this invention could pave the way for hydrogen vehicles.