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accession: "0001493152-24-039030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NEWH"
cik: "0001371128"
company_name: "NewHydrogen, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-10-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T23:11:04.967606+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NewHydrogen adds Dr. Yikyeom Kim to UCSB team for ThermoLoop™ development

## Summary
- Dr. Yikyeom Kim joins UCSB team working on thermochemical water splitting for green hydrogen.
- Kim brings expertise in tailored redox catalysts and gas-solid system analysis from KAIST and LOTTE Chemical.
- Holds Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from KAIST and B.S. from Yonsei University.
- NewHydrogen funds UCSB research program on ThermoLoop™ using heat instead of electricity to split water.
- Dr. Kim is the latest addition to a team led by Dr. Philip Christopher and Dr. Eric McFarland at UCSB.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-039030
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NEWH
- cik: 0001371128
- company_name: NewHydrogen, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-10-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1371128/000149315224039030/0001493152-24-039030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1371128/000149315224039030/form8-k.htm

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