Solar hydrogen

Z Li, S Fang, H Sun, RJ Chung… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen, produced through a zero‐pollution, sustainable, low‐cost, and high‐efficiency
process, is regarded as the “ultimate energy” of the 21st century. Solar water‐splitting …

2D materials and heterostructures for photocatalytic water-splitting: A theoretical perspective

G Wang, J Chang, W Tang, W Xie… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Photocatalytic water-splitting for hydrogen generation by sunlight provides a new route to
address energy and environmental problems. In recent years, tremendous efforts have been …

[HTML][HTML] Toward practical solar hydrogen production–an artificial photosynthetic leaf-to-farm challenge

JH Kim, D Hansora, P Sharma, JW Jang… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar water splitting is a promising approach to transform sunlight into renewable,
sustainable and green hydrogen energy. There are three representative ways of …

Molecular Catalysis of Energy Relevance in Metal–Organic Frameworks: From Higher Coordination Sphere to System Effects

NF Suremann, BD McCarthy, W Gschwind… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The modularity and synthetic flexibility of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have provoked
analogies with enzymes, and even the term MOFzymes has been coined. In this review, we …

Decoupled electrochemical water splitting: from fundamentals to applications

PJ McHugh, AD Stergiou… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrolytic water splitting to generate hydrogen and oxygen is one of the most promising
ways in which to harness intermittent renewable power sources and store the energy these …

Fundamentals and applications of photocatalytic CO2 methanation

U Ulmer, T Dingle, PN Duchesne, RH Morris… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The extraction and combustion of fossil natural gas, consisting primarily of methane,
generates vast amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. However …

CO2 Reduction: From the Electrochemical to Photochemical Approach

J Wu, Y Huang, W Ye, Y Li - Advanced Science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is believed to have a profound impact on
the global climate. To reverse the impact would necessitate not only curbing the reliance on …

Intrinsic electric fields in two-dimensional materials boost the solar-to-hydrogen efficiency for photocatalytic water splitting

CF Fu, J Sun, Q Luo, X Li, W Hu, J Yang - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials with the vertical intrinsic electric fields show great promise
in inhibiting the recombination of photogenerated carriers and widening light absorption …

Artificial photosynthesis at efficiencies greatly exceeding that of natural photosynthesis

DK Dogutan, DG Nocera - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Sunlight is an abundant energy source for a sustainable society. Indeed,
photosynthetic organisms harness solar radiation to build the world around us by …

Homogeneously dispersed multimetal oxygen-evolving catalysts

B Zhang, X Zheng, O Voznyy, R Comin, M Bajdich… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Earth-abundant first-row (3d) transition metal–based catalysts have been developed for the
oxygen-evolution reaction (OER); however, they operate at overpotentials substantially …