Sep

6

Tough New Catalyst Splits Water 100 Times Faster

September 6, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at Stanford and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed a tough new catalyst that carries out solar-powered water molecule splitting 100 times faster. This tough new catalyst works better as time goes on and stands up to acid. Because the new catalyst requires less of the rare and costly metal iridium, it could […]

Apr

20

Hydrogen Production From the Smallest Living Organisms

April 20, 2010 | 14 Comments

An MIT team has found a novel way using a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold that can assemble the nanoscale components needed to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen atoms.  The virus constructions use the power of sunlight for splitting the water and make the chemical fuels to power their […]

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