Fit4H2: Nanotechnology goes for industrial hydrogen applications
Jan. 29, 2025
©Gerda M. Lange, AI
©BMBF
Fit4H2: Towards reliable Hydrogen Economy

We are pleased to announce the official approval of our transnational industrial project Fit4H2. This project aims to make a transformative impact on the hydrogen economy by bringing together excellent partners from academia and industry in Germany and Italy. It represents a significant step toward a safer, more efficient hydrogen economy, enabling a cleaner and more sustainable energy future.
This highly innovative research endeavor with the full title “Constructive-technological development and implementation of processes for hydrogen non-permeable pipe and connection systems” provides us and our partners a total budget of approximately €2.2 million and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), and the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR) under the joint initiative “Green Hydrogen Research: A Collaboration to Empower Tomorrow's Energy.”
Fit4H2 is dedicated to pioneering technologies critical to enhancing safety and efficiency of hydrogen transport across urban applications, including vehicles, trains, and other infrastructure. In particular, the project addresses current key challenges by providing high-performance materials for barrier layers mitigating hydrogen embrittlement in steel pipelines and fittings through defect-free coatings made of novel ceramics and metal oxides, as well as sandwich-like coatings of both. Hydrogen sensors relying on a new class of quantum 2D nanomaterials and cutting-edge electron beam lithography approaches will ensure real-time, precise and sensitive leakage detection and long-term permeability monitoring of metal fittings and tubes. AI-driven gas discrimination systems will assess detection sensitivity down to the ppt (parts-per-trillion) range, which is inaccessible using current sensor technologies.




Involved people

Fit4H2: Nanotechnology goes for industrial hydrogen applications
Jan. 29, 2025
©Gerda M. Lange, AI
©BMBF
Fit4H2: Towards reliable Hydrogen Economy

We are pleased to announce the official approval of our transnational industrial project Fit4H2. This project aims to make a transformative impact on the hydrogen economy by bringing together excellent partners from academia and industry in Germany and Italy. It represents a significant step toward a safer, more efficient hydrogen economy, enabling a cleaner and more sustainable energy future.
This highly innovative research endeavor with the full title “Constructive-technological development and implementation of processes for hydrogen non-permeable pipe and connection systems” provides us and our partners a total budget of approximately €2.2 million and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), and the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR) under the joint initiative “Green Hydrogen Research: A Collaboration to Empower Tomorrow's Energy.”
Fit4H2 is dedicated to pioneering technologies critical to enhancing safety and efficiency of hydrogen transport across urban applications, including vehicles, trains, and other infrastructure. In particular, the project addresses current key challenges by providing high-performance materials for barrier layers mitigating hydrogen embrittlement in steel pipelines and fittings through defect-free coatings made of novel ceramics and metal oxides, as well as sandwich-like coatings of both. Hydrogen sensors relying on a new class of quantum 2D nanomaterials and cutting-edge electron beam lithography approaches will ensure real-time, precise and sensitive leakage detection and long-term permeability monitoring of metal fittings and tubes. AI-driven gas discrimination systems will assess detection sensitivity down to the ppt (parts-per-trillion) range, which is inaccessible using current sensor technologies.




Involved people
Cuniberti
Gianaurelio (Giovanni) Cuniberti
Chair
Cuniberti
Gianaurelio (Giovanni) Cuniberti
Chair
Cuniberti
Gianaurelio (Giovanni) Cuniberti
Chair
Al Aiti
Muhannad Al Aiti
Senior scientist
Al Aiti
Muhannad Al Aiti
Senior scientist
Al Aiti
Muhannad Al Aiti
Senior scientist
Panes-Ruiz
Luis Antonio Panes-Ruiz
Postdoc
Panes-Ruiz
Luis Antonio Panes-Ruiz
Postdoc
Panes-Ruiz
Luis Antonio Panes-Ruiz
Postdoc
Lange
Gerda Maria Lange
Postdoc
Lange
Gerda Maria Lange
Postdoc
Lange
Gerda Maria Lange
Postdoc