Sentences with phrase «photovoltaic water splitting»
To address the problem, Cui and his colleagues have focused on photovoltaic water splitting.
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Run an electric current from a photovoltaic device through this solution at a high enough voltage and it splits water.
The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, then adds pre-starved microbes to feed on the hydrogen and convert CO2 in the air into alcohol fuels.
Tour's scientific research areas include nanoelectronics, graphene electronics, silicon oxide electronics, carbon nanovectors for medical applications, green carbon research for enhanced oil recovery and environmentally friendly oil and gas extraction, graphene photovoltaics, carbon supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries, CO2 capture, water splitting to H2 and O2, water purification, carbon nanotube and graphene synthetic modifications, graphene oxide, carbon composites, hydrogen storage on nanoengineered carbon scaffolds, and synthesis of single - molecule nanomachines which includes molecular motors and nanocars.
Hydrogen, which is the simplest form of energy carrier, can be generated renewably with solar energy through photoelectrochemical water splitting or by photovoltaic (PV)-- driven electrolysis.
Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated solar water splitting by photovoltaic - electrolysis with a solar - to - hydrogen (STH) efficiency of more than 30 % — a new record.