With SCHMID Group, SunHydrogen plans to continue its partnership in 2022, but with a narrower focus.

The companies have been working together to design and define the process platform for mass manufacturing of SunHydrogen’s nanoparticle-based green hydrogen panels through a partnership that was established in February 2021. Initially, the partnership focused on three key stages of development: design evaluation, process evaluation, and system engineering.

SunHydrogen’s panel housing is a critical system component for ensuring the safe and efficient collection of hydrogen, and SCHMID will focus its efforts on its design and engineering. With this strategy, SunHydrogen will seek to diversify its commercialization strategy by forming relationships with industrial partners specializing in individual manufacturing components such as electroplating and substrate processing.

Now, SunHydrogen’s ongoing work with development partners InRedox and MSC on substrate manufacturing and electroplating chemistries will be carried out by the company. Geomatec, a high-performance thin-film manufacturer based in Japan, has joined forces with InRedox to help SunHydrogen’s transition to large-scale substrate production.

“Our partnership with SCHMID has allowed us to determine that our scale-up process can benefit from a diversified approach,” said SunHydrogen CEO Tim Young. “We look forward to continuing to work with SCHMID to develop our panel housing, while also continuing to engage new industrial partners and move toward commercialization as efficiently as possible.”