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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Klemenz, Sebastian
• Stegmüller, Andreas
• Yoon, Songhak
• Felser, Claudia
• Tüysüz, Harun
• Weidenkaff, Anke

Titel

Holistic View on Materials Development: Water Electrolysis as a Case Study

Ist Teil von

• Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), 2021-09, Vol.60 (37), p.20094-20100

Auflage

International ed. in English

Ort / Verlag

Germany: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In view of rising ecological awareness, materials development is primarily aimed at improving the performance and efficiency of innovative and more elaborate materials. However, a materials performance figure of merit should include essential aspects of materials: environmental impact, economic constraints, technical feasibility, etc. Thus, we promote the inclusion of sustainability criteria already during the materials design process. With such a holistic design approach, new products may be more likely to meet the circular economy requirements than when traditional development strategies are pursued. Using catalysts for water electrolysis as an example, we present a modelling method based on experimental data to holistically evaluate processes. In the context of a circular economy, the design process of new materials has to change. The performance‐based mindset must be replaced by a holistic approach to efficient materials. For this transition, the collaboration between materials science and sustainability assessment must be improved, and new ways of including assessments into design processes and standardized figures of sustainable merit must be defined.