Australian startup scales Nobel Prize hydrogen technology to commercial volumes
Rux Energy started with grams and scaled to 20 kilograms daily. They use metal-organic frameworks to store hydrogen.
Rux Energy uses metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, to store and move hydrogen. These are for shipping and long-haul trucks.
MOFs are crystalline materials. They have tiny pores that trap gases like a sponge.
An Australian professor named Richard Robson from the University of Melbourne won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shared it with two others for this technology.
Rux Energy has scaled production from just grams in 2021 to 20 kilograms daily. Founder Jehan Kanga said very few MOF groups around the world have reached this scale.
They kept performance high while growing. Hydrogen can cut carbon emissions by billions of tons.
- 2025
- Nobel Prize year
- 20 kilograms
- Daily production now
- Couple of grams
- Starting production
- Billions of tons
- Carbon reduction potential
Why it mattersScaling hydrogen storage technology moves Australia closer to exporting clean energy. This helps cut emissions from transport sectors that are hard to reduce.
AustraliaAn Australian company is advancing hydrogen technology that could position Australia as a clean energy exporter and create new industries in green manufacturing.
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