Electrochemical Water Splitting: Semiconducting Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Water Splitting and Photovoltaics (Adv. Energy Mater. 23/2017)

Water Splitting: One‐dimensional TiO2 Nanotube Photocatalysts for Solar Water Splitting (Adv. Sci. 1/2017)

Identifying champion nanostructures for solar water-splitting.

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 approach for correlating the spatial distribution of crystalline and current-carrying domains in entire nanoparticle aggregates. We apply this a...

Solar Energy Stored as Hydrogen: Controlling Inexpensive Oxide-based Nanostructures for Efficient Water Splitting

The tandem photoelectochemical (PEC) cell based on oxide semiconductors for water splitting offers a potentially inexpensive route for solar hydrogen generation. At the heart of the device, a nanostructured photoanode for water oxidation is connected in series with one or two dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) that provide an extra bias to photogenerated electrons in order to perform water reduc...

Redox and electrochemical water splitting catalytic properties of hydrated metal oxide modified electrodes.

This paper presents a review of the redox and electrocatalytic properties of transition metal oxide electrodes, paying particular attention to the oxygen evolution reaction. Metal oxide materials may be prepared using a variety of methods, resulting in a diverse range of redox and electrocatalytic properties. Here we describe the most common synthetic routes and the important factors relevant t...

Recent Progress in Energy‐Driven Water Splitting

Hydrogen is readily obtained from renewable and non-renewable resources via water splitting by using thermal, electrical, photonic and biochemical energy. The major hydrogen production is generated from thermal energy through steam reforming/gasification of fossil fuel. As the commonly used non-renewable resources will be depleted in the long run, there is great demand to utilize renewable ener...