SunHydrogen, Inc., the developer of technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, today provided an update on the company’s progress toward multiple planned 2022 milestones.

The Chief Scientific officer announced that they have  expanded their industrial partnerships across the U.S., Germany, South Korea and Japan, and renewed and initiated new collaborations with the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan, respectively.

SunHydrogen’s scientific operations and research capabilities have been expanded to scale the nanoparticle technology and the company announced that it is on track to demonstrate a production-quality prototype of its nanoparticle-based green hydrogen technology.

SunHydrogen started 2022 with the addition of a new research and development laboratory in Coralville, Iowa, to fuel its goal of scaling up fabrication of its nanoparticle hydrogen generator units by the end of the 2022 fiscal year and are in the process of streamlining manufacturing operations, a task made more accessible by increasing personnel.

SunHydrogen also reported positive interim product development progress to have successfully validated the manufacturability of our growth substrates and deposition recipes at scales needed for production-quality prototype demonstration.

The company is working to resolve supply chain challenges with some feedstocks and anticipate full resolution by early May and finalizing research partnerships with external membrane and catalyst developers to integrate these elements into the architecture of their nanoparticle-based hydrogen generator units.

SunHydrogen’s sponsored research agreements with the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan are ongoing, with the potential for additional research and product development milestones during the second half of 2022.

Expected product development milestones announced f Q4 2022 include:

• Successful fabrication of semiconductor units at production-quality prototype scales

• Successful integration of membranes at production-quality prototype scales

• Successful integration of catalysts at production-quality prototype scales

• Successful testing and demonstration of production-quality prototype units