Manganese showing new potential in clean energy

🔬 New research highlights manganese as a viable catalyst for fuel-cell chemistry, offering a lower-cost, more abundant alternative to precious metals. Through smart ligand design, researchers demonstrated durable performance from a manganese complex in converting CO₂ to formate - a promising hydrogen carrier for fuel cells.

For those of us working across manganese mining, processing, materials, and downstream applications, this is another signal that Mn’s role in the energy transition is expanding well beyond steel and batteries.

⚡Worth watching as catalyst development, hydrogen systems, and supply chains begin to intersect more closely.

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