Hydrogen has long been billed as the clean fuel that could power steel mills, cargo ships and even long-haul trucks without pumping carbon into the atmosphere, but splitting water to make it has ...

Water splitting has long been hailed as a promising path to clean hydrogen fuel. But while the process looks elegant on paper, it turns out to be far less efficient in practice, demanding ...

The conversion of solar energy into chemical fuels via photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting represents a promising route for sustainable energy production. This approach integrates ...

To explore the reason why water splitting suffers from inefficiency, the researchers applied a sophisticated new light-based technique called phase-resolved second harmonic generation. Shown here, the ...

Researchers have developed a novel method using facet-selective, ultrafine cocatalysts to efficiently split water to create hydrogen -- a clean source of fuel. Scientists are urgently searching for ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a scandium (Sc)-doped titanium dioxide (TiO 2) semiconductor in the rutile crystal phase. Schematic diagram of TiO 2 facet control and ...

Using 600% less voltage to produce hydrogen, a research team at the University of Illinois Chicago has developed a new method for splitting water. The method uses a carbon-rich substance called ...

A group of researchers from Tohoku University, Tokyo University of Science, and Mitsubishi Materials Corporation have made a significant advancement in increasing the efficiency of the photocatalytic ...

A comprehensive look at doping photocatalysts in water splitting under visible light is presented. Doping to regulate the band structure of Bi-based composite oxides achieves overall water splitting.

Researchers in Sweden have developed a powerful new material that dramatically boosts the ability to create hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight, making the process eight times more effective than ...