In the fight against climate change, scientists have searched for ways to replace fossil fuels with carbon-free alternatives such as hydrogen fuel. A device known as a photoelectrical chemical cell ...

Hydrogen has long been billed as the clean fuel that could power steel mills, cargo ships and even long-haul trucks without pumping carbon into the atmosphere, but splitting water to make it has ...

HOUSTON – (Oct. 20, 2022) – Creating a hydrogen economy is no small task, but Rice University engineers have discovered a method that could make oxygen evolution catalysis in acids, one of the most ...

The future economy based on renewable and sustainable energy sources might utilize battery-powered cars, large-scale solar and wind farms, and energy reserves stored in batteries and chemical fuels.

In electrocatalytic water splitting, electrical energy drives the dissociation of water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen at catalytic electrodes. On the cathode, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER ...

Carbon nitride materials, in particular polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4), have emerged as promising photocatalysts for the solar-driven splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. The ...

Large-scale solar hydrogen production through water splitting using a powder photocatalyst is considered one of the most promising methods of producing sustainable fuels in the future. In 2018, this ...

Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) report contactless H2 production via water electrolysis mediated by the microwave-triggered ...