Sentences with phrase «splitting oxygen and hydrogen»

«You start with water, add energy to split the oxygen and hydrogen molecules apart, and get H2.

Not exact matches

Elements and compounds below the surface could be used to create fuel, including water, which can be split into useful hydrogen and oxygen.

This uses electrolysis to «split» water, producing hydrogen and oxygen.

«Electricity splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, and the same cell can later use the hydrogen to produce electricity and heat.»

Kesterites acting as photocatalysts might be able to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight, and to store solar energy in the form of chemical energy,» explains Schorr.

The current splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and bacteria in the water transform carbon dioxide and hydrogen into fuels or other useful chemicals.

Nocera had been working on a «bionic leaf» in which solar panels provide the energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases.

BUGGING OUT Not only can this insectlike robot fly and swim, but it also splits water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which the bot ignites to propel itself from the water.

Researchers have used cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

In superheating, water is heated well beyond its boiling point — in this case from 1,000 to 1,300 degrees Celsius — producing high - temperature steam to run turbines and also to operate solar reactors to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Clean renewable energy can be produced by photocatalytically splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with solar energy.

Their research, published online Sunday in Nature Nanotechnology, involved the use of cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

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.

«Splitting water usually requires two different catalysts, but our catalyst can drive both of the reactions required to separate water into its two constituents, oxygen and hydrogen,» says study leader Associate Professor Chuan Zhao.

He said the free electrons on the leaf's surface then interact with water, catalyzing its split into oxygen on the leaf's light side and hydrogen on the dark side.

Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind to split water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

An electrolyzer works by running an electrical current through water that splits it into oxygen and hydrogen.

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.

Many of us are familiar with electrolytic splitting of water from their school days: if you hold two electrodes into an aqueous electrolyte and apply a sufficient voltage, gas bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen are formed.

Chemist Daniel Nocera, head of the M.I.T.'s Solar Revolution Project, focused on one side of the equation: splitting water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen molecules.

One of the simplest ways of obtaining hydrogen is electrolysis: an electric current splits water molecules into their constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

But when Ilsedore Cleeves at the University of Michigan and her team created a model of the early sun they found this couldn't have happened: once the ice was split, the oxygen became locked in frozen carbon monoxide and not enough ionised, deuterium - rich hydrogen was made.

Natural photosynthesis uses light energy to split water into its constituent oxygen and hydrogen.

Currently, electrolyzers (machines that split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen) need a catalyst, namely platinum, to run; ditto fuel cells to recombine that hydrogen with oxygen, which produces electricity.

MacDonnell also has worked on developing new photocatalysts for hydrogen generation, with the goal of creating an artificial photosynthetic system which uses solar energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

Plants have the renewable energy storage problem pretty well figured out: Capture photons from the sun, use them to split water into hydrogen and oxygen to make sugars, then extract the energy from the sugars when it's needed.

An alternative device, called an electrolyzer, uses solar - generated electricity to split water into clean hydrogen and oxygen, but the technique is very energy intensive and expensive.

Using spectral readings from telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Hand has found high levels of oxidative chemicals such as sulfate, oxygen, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Europa's surface, which are produced as ionizing radiation from Jupiter scours it, splitting apart water molecules and sulfur compounds in the uppermost layers of its ice.

When sunlight hits the electrode, it generates an electric current that splits the water into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen.

Water could also be split into hydrogen and oxygen for use as rocket fuel.

A key aspect of this process involves splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen.

University of Houston physicists have discovered a catalyst that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, composed of easily available, low - cost materials and operating far more efficiently than previous catalysts.

He added that using solar cells and abundantly available elements to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has enormous potential for reducing the cost of hydrogen production and that the approach could eventually replace the current method, which relies on fossil fuels.

The device developed at UCLA has a third electrode that acts as both a supercapacitor, which stores energy, and as a device for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, a process called water electrolysis.

One group used this type of catalyst to split water into hydrogen and oxygen; the other one was splitting carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen.

Yet without a protective magnetic field to shield the surface, ionizing radiation started splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

How the «moth eye solar cell» functions: with the help of sunlight water molecules are split into oxygen and hydrogen.

An applied electric current splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen, and under the right conditions, lithium or potassium then acts as a catalyst to absorb energy and collapse hydrogen's electron orbit.

The researchers offered possible electrochemical processes that might explain the heat, including irregularities in the electrochemical cell, possible unknown exothermic chemical reactions, or the recombination of split - apart hydrogen and oxygen atoms of water.

The new device relies on a metallic blend of nickel and nickel oxide nanostructures, which help split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel.

Anthony Griffin, a retired Royal Navy admiral, described patented apparatus developed in the US to perform the supposedly impossible task of splitting water with a tiny current into hydrogen and oxygen, which can be burnt.

Which splits water into oxygen and the constituents of hydrogen, a proton and electron.

One main goal in the renewable energy field is to find an efficient, inexpensive way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

In this case, a solar panel slightly bigger than a playing card harnesses the sun's energy to generate an electric current that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process known as electrolysis.

This aurora is driven by Jupiter's intense magnetic field, which causes particles to reach such high speeds that they can split the water molecules in the plume when they hit them, resulting in oxygen and hydrogen ions which leave their telltale imprint in the colours of the aurora.

Light comes in four photons, and then it hits the leaf, and it splits water into oxygen and hydrogen.

It turns out that water contained in some minerals that get pulled down into Earth due to plate tectonic activity could, under extreme pressures and temperatures, split up — liberating hydrogen and enabling the residual oxygen to combine with iron metal from the core to create a novel high - pressure mineral, iron peroxide.

Splitting water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen elements is an important starting point for the development of clean renewable fuels.

Stone's proposed venture would create rocket fuel by melting water ice from the moon's soil, purifying it (exactly how, he says, is a trade secret), and splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen, perhaps using a solar - powered electrolysis system.