«Nature Chemistry,» publish the idea from Professor Lee Cronin and Mark Symes of Glasgow University in a paper called, «Decoupling
Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution During Electrolytic Water Splitting Using a Proton - Coupled Electron Buffer.»
Developing Novel Platinum Group Metal - Free Catalysts for Alkaline
Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions, Sanjeev Mukerjee and Serge Pann, Northeastern University
Using theory, modern surface - science methods, and synchrotron - based techniques, JCAP researchers seek to understand the reaction pathways and the elementary steps of
the hydrogen and oxygen evolutions reactions to facilitate the design of new, Earth - abundant catalysts for solar - fuels production.
Not exact matches
An
oxygen -
evolution catalyst splits water into
hydrogen and oxygen.
Rice University scientists have created an efficient, simple - to - manufacture
oxygen -
evolution catalyst that pairs well with semiconductors for solar water splitting, the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy in the form of
hydrogen and oxygen.
«That's what his advance is pointing towards,» he says, «finding an alternative catalyst that will allow us to do
oxygen evolution (breaking the bonds of water or H2O
and forming
oxygen) in concert with
hydrogen» on a grand scale.
This newly established lab is capable to design
and fabricate a wide variety of advanced materials for
oxygen reduction,
hydrogen oxidation, water oxidation,
and hydrogen evolution, among others.
There they will measure the photocatalytic activity for the
oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions, as occur when light energy is successfully used to break water down into useable fuel.
Resume: Highly active
and low - cost electrocatalysts for
hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are crucial due to the need for clean
and renewable energy.
So unless there is a permanent, drastic, progressive
and one - way alteration in the chemical makeup of the oceans over geological epochs (which would entail the massive
evolution of
hydrogen gas
and the production of
oxygen, chlorine or
hydrogen peroxide) or a similarly huge increase in its potential energy (levitating it off the ocean floor), the energy involved will still have to be dissipated as heat (there's nowhere else for it to go, unless you get all science - fictiony
and assume it vanishes into hyperspace or turns into neutrinos or something).