Daino, Trevor Grade: 8 Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy - Waxhaw, NC Project Title: Investigating Tantalate Catalysts for
Photocatalytic Water Splitting
Bao said
photocatalytic water - splitting experiments have been tried since the 1970s, but this was the first to use cobalt oxide and the first to use neutral water under visible light at a high energy conversion efficiency without co-catalysts or sacrificial chemicals.
Not exact matches
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.
In this form, they attract photogenerated electrons, allowing for an efficient charge separation and an enhanced
photocatalytic activity for hydrogen generation from
water.
The topic of this first stage research was the
photocatalytic production of hydrogen from
water in the presence of semiconductor catalysts.