Water Splitting: Conjugated Polymer Nanomaterials for Solar Water Splitting (Adv. Energy Mater. 42/2020)

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

Solar water splitting cells.

Energy harvested directly from sunlight offers a desirable approach toward fulfilling, with minimal environmental impact, the need for clean energy. Solar energy is a decentralized and inexhaustible natural resource, with the magnitude of the available solar power striking the earth’s surface at any one instant equal to 130 million 500 MW power plants.1 However, several important goals need to ...

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...

Shining a light on solar water splitting.

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One‐Dimensional Earth‐Abundant Nanomaterials for Water‐Splitting Electrocatalysts

Hydrogen fuel acquisition based on electrochemical or photoelectrochemical water splitting represents one of the most promising means for the fast increase of global energy need, capable of offering a clean and sustainable energy resource with zero carbon footprints in the environment. The key to the success of this goal is the realization of robust earth-abundant materials and cost-effective r...