May

14

Doubling Hydrogen Production Using Sunlight

May 14, 2019 | Leave a Comment

Princeton University engineer’s research has harnessed sunlight to isolate hydrogen from industrial wastewater, doubling the previous standard for splitting hydrogen from water in a scalable way. Hydrogen is a critical component in the manufacture of thousands of common products from plastic to fertilizers, but producing pure hydrogen is expensive and energy intensive. In a paper […]

Feb

11

Nitrogen Fertilizer Making Catalyst Powered by Sunlight

February 11, 2015 | 1 Comment

Northwestern University scientists are the first to develop a catalyst that can perform a remarkable feat found only in nature: take nitrogen from the air and turn it into ammonia under natural conditions. (Ammonia is the critical component in fertilizer.) If fully realized the process might displace more than 1 percent of world energy use. […]

Dec

17

New Sunlight Powered Hydrogen Production From Water Idea

December 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment

University of Houston (UH) scientists have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight’s solar power.  The new technique involves the use of cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The research paper has just been published online in Nature Nanotechnology, behind a paywall. Professor Jiming Bao, lead […]

Oct

15

Sun and Sewage Make Hydrogen Fuel

October 15, 2013 | 1 Comment

A research team led by Yat Li, associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) has developed the solar-microbial device that uses only sunlight and wastewater to produce hydrogen gas.  The results could provide a sustainable energy source while improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment.  Maybe the sewer bills could go […]

Jul

23

A Hydrogen From Sunlight Breakthrough

July 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Scientists combined a pigment with semiconducting nanoparticles to create a system that uses light to spark a catalytic process that creates hydrogen fuel.  Argonne nanoscientist Elena Rozhkova and her colleagues combined a pigment called bacteriorhodopsin, a protein found in the membranes of ancient microorganisms that live in desert salt flats, with sunlight to generate environmentally […]

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