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Electrochemical Studies of Water Splitting in Organic Media

Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta

The development of new routes towards the generation of environmentally friendly solar fuels, such as molecular hydrogen (H2) for use in fuel cells, is a grand challenge facing the scientific community. In this regard, water splitting represents one of the ...

EPFL2016

Coupling of electrocatalysts to photoabsorbers for solar fuels production

Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

The direct transformation of sunlight into fuels and chemicals has attracted considerable attention for the potential impact on the storage of solar energies at large scales and the reduction of CO2 emissions. More than 80% of our current global energy con ...

EPFL2016

Minimization of Ionic Transport Resistance in Porous Monoliths for Application in Integrated Solar Water Splitting Devices

Sophia Haussener

Monolithic solar water splitting devices consist of photovoltaic materials integrated with electrocatalysts and produce solar hydrogen by water splitting upon solar illumination in one device. Upscaling of monolithic solar water splitting devices is obstru ...

American Chemical Society2016

Photoinduced Absorption Spectroscopy of CoPi on BiVO4: The Function of CoPi during Water Oxidation

Florian Le Formal, Yimeng Ma

This paper employs photoinduced absorption and electrochemical techniques to analyze the charge carrier dynamics that drive photoelectrochemical water oxidation on bismuth vanadate (BiVO4), both with and without cobalt phosphate (CoPi) co-catalyst. These r ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

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The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules using sunlight is an attractive method for solar energy storage. Until now, photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution is mostly studied in acidic solutions, in which the hydrogen evolution is more fac ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

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Artificial photosynthesis (AP) is inspired by photosynthesis in nature. In AP, solar hydrogen can be produced by water splitting in photoelectrochemical cells (PEC). The necessary photoelectrodes are inorganic semiconductors. Light-harvesting proteins and ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

Providing energy for a population projected to reach 9 billion people within the middle of this century is one of the most pressing societal issues. Burning fossil fuels at a rate and scale that satisfy our near-term demand will irreversibly damage the liv ...

American Chemical Society2014

Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley, Marcel Roland Schreier, Jeong-Hyeok Im

Although sunlight-driven water splitting is a promising route to sustainable hydrogen fuel production, widespread implementation is hampered by the expense of the necessary photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical apparatus. Here, we describe a highly efficie ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2014

Identifying champion nanostructures for solar water-splitting

Michael Graetzel, Francesco Stellacci, Cécile Hébert, Kislon Voitchovsky, Maurin Cornuz, Scott Charles Warren

Charge transport in nanoparticle-based materials underlies many emerging energy-conversion technologies, yet assessing the impact of nanometre-scale structure on charge transport across micrometre-scale distances remains a challenge. Here we develop an app ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Kinetic Assessment and Numerical Modeling of Photocatalytic Water Splitting toward Efficient Solar Hydrogen Production

Takashi Hisatomi

Photocatalytic water splitting has been studied extensively as a promising technology for scalable and cost-efficient hydrogen production using solar energy. Although overall water splitting has been achieved under visible light irradiation, significant pr ...

2012