Electrochemical catalysts used in water splitting often show poor performance due to low electrical conductance of (oxy)hydroxide species produced in situ. To overcome this challenge, researchers ...

Iron-Doped BaMnO3 for Hybrid Water Splitting and Syngas Generation. ChemSusChem, 2017; DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201700699; ...

Upon carrying out electrocatalytic water splitting, the team observed that Ni-W 5 N 4 alloy catalyzed the hydrogen evolution reaction, resulting in 10 mA/cm 2 current density at a small ...

Photocatalytic water splitting is a clean energy technology that uses sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen in order to produce green hydrogen—a clean fuel—without relying on fossil ...

Beyond water splitting, the team's framework can also be adapted to other important chemical reactions, such as converting carbon dioxide into useful fuels or producing ammonia from nitrogen.

Under visible light illumination, the nanoscale photocatalysts perform the water-splitting reduction half-reaction with 100% efficiency. Credit: Lilac Amirav, Technion-Israel Institue of Technology ...

University of Michigan researchers developed a new photocatalytic water splitting system that is reportedly able to reach a 9.2% solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency. The proposed system uses the ...

Ruthenium catalyst sets new efficiency record for water splitting. Reduced amount of platinum. These optimized OLC electrocatalysts utilize only 0.27 wt% Pt to achieve a comparable amount of hydrogen ...

Using nothing more than a $10 magnet, researchers have doubled the hydrogen output of a water-splitting electrolyzer (Nat. Energy 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41560-019-0404-4). If the approach can be ...

Together, these features dramatically improve the adsorption/desorption dynamics during overall water splitting, enabling high performance with a low voltage requirement of 1.53 V at 10 mA cm-2.

In a step forward for renewable energy storage, researchers in Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have accomplished the continuous splitting of impure water into pure ...