Keydro: Brevetti+ 2024 Grant Confirmed
Keydro has reached another milestone: the allocation of the Brevetti+ 2024 grant, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy and managed by Invitalia, has been officially confirmed following the positive evaluation of our project reporting.
The grant, amounting to up to €78,000 in non-repayable funding, will support activities aimed at enhancing our patent for low-pressure hydrogen storage. This is an important step in accelerating Keydro’s expansion strategy in Italy, across Europe, and worldwide.
This achievement, combined with the patent already granted, confirms the strong interest in our technologies and the quality of our research, further strengthening our commitment to developing tangible and sustainable solutions for the energy transition.
We are happy to announce the grant of Italian patent n. 102023000008493 to Keydro!
We are happy to announce the grant of Italian patent n. 102023000008493 to Keydro!
Keydro is glad to inform partners, investors and the wider hydrogen‑technology community that the Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) has officially granted us Patent No. 102023000008493, protecting our proprietary new material system for safe, high‑density hydrogen storage.
This invention, developed entirely in‑house by our R&D team, uses novel, nanoporous meta‑alloys that physically adsorb hydrogen at low pressure and ambient temperature, overcoming the safety and cost barriers that have long limited large‑scale adoption of hydrogen.
Securing national patent protection is a key milestone that validates the originality of our approach and paves the way for corresponding filings in strategic international markets.
We are accelerating the proof‑of‑concept phase: a pilot module is currently being fabricated and will undergo field testing with selected academic partners in Q4 2025. These tests will benchmark gravimetric capacity, charge/discharge kinetics and full life‑cycle sustainability against incumbent compressed‑gas and cryogenic‑liquid solutions.
We extend heartfelt thanks to the entire Keydro team, our academic collaborators and early‑stage investors for their commitment and belief in our mission.
Keydro's technology presents a mitigated risk
Keydro's technology presents a mitigated risk
Innovative companies in the field of energy and material-related technologies, such as Keydro, face significant challenges in supply chain coordination and risk management compared to traditional industries. The main reasons why Keydro could successfully overcome these obstacles are as follows:
- Supply chain: Innovative companies typically rely on a network of emerging technologies that are not yet fully developed or standardised. Keydro is entering into the hydrogen market, which is globally consolidated and estimated at USD 170 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3% from 2024 to 2030 [1]. By bringing security, efficiency and cost savings, Keydro’s technology complements an existing and established industry.
- Coordination with Unscaled Technologies: In the early stages of development, many new energy solutions depend on other technologies. This interdependence can create bottlenecks and delays. For the same reason mentioned above, Keydro’s technology, in part, does not require coordination with unscaled technologies.
- Reduction of power costs for hydrogen storage: Keydro’s solution has lower energy requirements. Typically, the core of green tech has high energy requirements.
- Efficient solution: The focus of Keydro project is the proposal of a much more efficient solution for storing hydrogen. Reducing the risk of switching to our more efficient solution requires strong partnerships and supply chain integration.
- Scalability: Keydro is studying a tech easy to industrialize a scale and is also studying a way to accelerate its innovation.
- Dependence on external raw materials: Keydro’s proposed technology allows a specific geographic area to utilise the resources available in that area to create the new materials. Keydro’s tech pemit to mitigate volatile cost of materials.
In summary, we’re well aware of the need for risk mitigation, cost reduction and the need to have accelerate innovation.
[1] Link to data – Hydrogen market is driven largely by the fertilizer and refining industries
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Collaboration with the Chemistry Department of the University of Pavia is strengthened
Collaboration with the Chemistry Department of the University of Pavia is strengthened
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’.
Keydro signed a strategic collaboration whit CNR to realise an innovative hydrogen tank
Keydro signed a strategic collaboration whit CNR to realise an innovative hydrogen tank
Milan, 10 November 2024 – Keydro has concluded a strategic partnership with the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM-CNR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) to realise the Proof of Concept (PoC) of a tank designed to contain hydrogen at room temperature and low pressure.
The defined activity envisages the creation of a special laboratory with dedicated machinery and instrumentation, and mainly three macro-areas of collaboration between IMM-CNR and Keydro:
1. characterisation of filters with nanometric materials,
2. realisation of the accumulation system,
3. release system.
Jacopo Sagramoso, CEO of Keydro stated: “the objective defined with the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems of the CNR is ambitious and extremely challenging, dealing with complex and frontier subjects. We are aware of the challenge we have undertaken and are convinced that we have created a team with excellent skills that will carry out the work defined.”
Sagramoso added, ’we came to define the project after a careful feasibility and patent prior art study. In IMM-CNR, we have found a partner capable of guaranteeing us an innovative and fertile environment capable of incorporating and improving the proposed innovation. We also have the will to extend the collaboration into the subsequent development phases’.
Fabio Di Pietrantonio, Senior Researcher at IMM-CNR said: ‘The Italian National Research Council (CNR), has in its mission the promotion and development of scientific and technological research. In this context, the joint research contract signed with Keydro aimed at the optimisation of innovative materials for hydrogen storage, with the objective of improving the efficiency, safety and sustainability of emerging technologies in the energy sector.
