CatAmmon
CatAmmon’s revolutionary metal-dopant technology matches precious-metal performance without rare metals, enabling efficient, cleaner, cheaper, and scalable ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion and replacing rare metals in catalytic converters for mobility.
About Us
CatAmmon was founded in 2024 based on five years of academic research led by two professors, and develops advanced metal-dopant and ceramic-based catalyst technologies for hydrogen and ammonia applications.
The company’s core focus is ammonia cracking for hydrogen production, enabling on-demand hydrogen supply for hydrogen-powered vehicles, ships, off-road machinery, and fueling stations. CatAmmon’s flagship cracking catalyst operates at 350–400°C, requires no rare or precious metals, and can reduce CapEx and OpEx by up to 50%, unlocking cleaner, cheaper, and scalable hydrogen production from ammonia.
In parallel, CatAmmon has developed a proprietary metal-dopant technology that matches precious-metal catalytic performance without rare metals, enabling the replacement of precious metals currently used in automotive catalytic converters. This approach reduces cost, supply-chain risk, and environmental impact while supporting large-scale deployment across mobility platforms.
As a longer-term extension, CatAmmon is also developing a near-atmospheric-pressure ammonia synthesis catalyst, targeting up to 55% reduction in ammonia production cost as a cleaner alternative to the traditional Haber–Bosch process.
Within its first year, CatAmmon raised $1.85M and is executing multiple PoC’s with leading global partners across Japan, Korea, Switzerland, and Germany.
Relevant Challenges
Clean Energy Sources
Enabling efficient, low-cost, rare-metal free hydrogen production from ammonia for clean mobility and fueling infrastructure.
New Materials
Developing rare-metal-free metal-dopant that replace precious metals in catalytic converters and ammonia to hydrogen systems
