Thanks to their high hydrogen permeability, vanadium based alloys can be a valuable and sustainable alternative to palladium alloys, commonly employed in commercial membranes for hydrogen purification/separation. In this work, the unprecedented deposition of micrometric vanadium-based multilayers and their investigation as hydrogen selective membranes have been reported. In particular, this work describes the use of High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering, a technique easily scalable also for complex geometries, for the deposition of dense and crystalline PdN93Pd7/Pd multilayers with total thickness <7 gm onto porous alumina. These membranes showed high hydrogen fluxes in the 300-400 degrees C range, up to 0.26 mol 111(-2) s(-1) at 300 kPa pressure difference and 375 degrees C, as well as an unexpected and significant resistance to hydrogen embrittlement and to syngas in operating conditions. (C) 2018 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.