Milan 10 February 2025 – Keydro, based on specifications defined with the University of Pavia, has designed and produced special shuttles to contain carbon-based materials during the activation process. This process is the one that leads to the stage necessary to increase their porosity and introduce micropores, making them usable for the absorption of gases and emerging pollutants. The treatment is usually conducted with KOH and the alumina shuttles used so far reacted with the base, contaminating the sample in increasing amounts as the shuttle’s lifetime increased.

Professor Chiara Milanese, Head of the Hydrogen Laboratory at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pavia, stated ‘The Keydro’s special vessels have solved a major problem for us, in fact, they do not react with C-based materials and with KOH up to temperatures above 650°C in N2 flow, and allow us to obtain ultra-pure super-activated C with gravimetric hydrogen storage capacities 1. 5 times higher than materials prepared in alumina (and thus containing Al) and with kinetics even 2 times better at -196°C and hydrogen pressures up to 10 bar’.