Nov
17
New Microscale Combined Solar Cell Water Splitter
November 17, 2016 | Leave a Comment
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Laboratory scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell. The result is a big boost to the stability and efficiency of artificial photosynthesis. Led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the project […]
Oct
13
New Catalyst Makes Hydrogen With Electricity or Sunlight
October 13, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Sandia National Laboratories researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a water splitting catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt – molybdenum disulfide. Known as ‘molly’ for short, molly may well replace for platinum, a rare element that has the highest price of all the metals. The Sandia induced changes […]
Sep
24
A New Cheaper Water Splitting Catalyst
September 24, 2015 | 1 Comment
A University of Wisconsin at Madison research team reports a hydrogen making catalyst containing phosphorus and sulfur – both common elements – and cobalt, a metal that is 1,000 times cheaper than platinum. Like gasoline, natural gas and other petrochemicals, hydrogen could also be used to store energy. Hydrogen could be the ideal fuel: Whether […]
Apr
3
On The Hunt For a Better Water Splitting Catalyst
April 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory are busy developing catalysts to lower the energy demands, and thus the cost, of H2 production. A hydrogen economy running on H2 gas, free from the pollution and politics of fossil fuels depends on developing an energy-efficient strategy for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen. The problem is that […]
Sep
5
Seeing How a Water Splitting Catalyst Works
September 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists have determined the dominant catalytic mechanism for cobalt catalysts. The idea is to identify and understand the working mechanism inside water splitting catalysts. The drive is worldwide by scientists and engineers to find better catalysts powered by solar energy to run fuel cells. A water splitting catalyst system would […]
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