Hydrogen Production: Sulfur-Linked Metal-Organic Framework Enables Solar-Driven Hydrogen Evolution

Oregon State University announced on September 28, 2026, that its researchers have developed a sulfur-containing metal-organic framework named BVR-19 that catalyzes hydrogen evolution from water under illumination without an added metal cocatalyst, according to the university’s news release.

The results appear in the Journal of the American Chemical Society article “Intraligand Charge Transfer in Metal-Organic Frameworks Facilitates Radical Anion-Mediated Hydrogen Evolution,” published online on September 14, 2026, and in print on September 23, 2026, with DOI 10.1021/jacs.6c13238, according to the publication record.

The research was carried out at OSU’s Materials Discovery Laboratory under the direction of Kyriakos C. Stylianou, involving team members Emmanuel Musa, Dylan Pyle, Jacob Lessard and collaborators across synthesis, spectroscopy, microscopy and computational analysis, according to Oregon State University’s newsroom and the Fang Research Group publication list.

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