(Invited) Recent Progress in Fundamental Photoelectrochemical Studies Relevant to New Low - Cost Designs for Z -
Scheme Solar Water Splitting Reactors.
(From left to right): Chengxiang Xiang and Erik Verlage assemble a monolithically integrated III - V device, protected by a TiO2 stabilization layer, which performs
unassisted solar water splitting with collection of hydrogen fuel and oxygen.
Efficient and
Stable Solar Water Splitting Using Earth - Abundant Catalysts and Novel Layered 2D Perovskites, Aditya Mohite, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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.
Using commercially available solar cells and none of the usual rare metals, researchers at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have designed an intrinsically stable and
scalable solar water splitting device that is fully based on earth - abundant materials, with a solar - to - hydrogen... Read more →
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.
A team at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels has developed a process for providing sensitive semiconductors for
solar water splitting («artificial leaves») with an organic, transparent protective layer.
In that work, the team grew a catalyst directly on a semiconducting nanorod array that turned sunlight into energy for
solar water splitting.
In this study, PNNL researchers examined thin film lanthanum iron oxide and strontium titanium oxide, LaFeO3 (LFO) and SrTiO3 (STO), respectively, layered together to produce a photocatalyst for
solar water splitting.
Applying our new data - driven approach, we successfully identify several new TMOs with promising band gaps and edges that are predicted to resist corrosion under aqueous conditions relevant to
solar water splitting.
Reactive Sputtering of Bismuth Vanadate Photoanodes for
Solar Water Splitting.
«These precise measurements will help us build better models of reactions vital to groundwater quality,
solar water splitting, and much more,» said Dr. Martin McBriarty, a PNNL geoscientist on the project.
The research offers a major advance to accurately modeling reactions important to everything from groundwater quality, to energy extraction from the subsurface, to
solar water splitting.
Mn2V2O7: An Earth Abundant Light Absorber for
Solar Water Splitting.