Efficient Water Splitting System Enabled by Multifunctional Platinum‐Free Electrocatalysts

2021 ◽  
pp. 2009853
Author(s):  
Yaotang Zhong ◽  
Yitong Lu ◽  
Zhenghui Pan ◽  
Jie Yang ◽  
Guohao Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Splitting ◽  
Splitting System

scholarly journals Emerging Energy Harvesting Technology for Electro/Photo-Catalytic Water Splitting Application

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Jianfei Tang ◽  
Tianle Liu ◽  
Sijia Miao ◽  
Yuljae Cho
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Water Splitting ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Energy Applications ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Splitting System

In recent years, we have experienced extreme climate changes due to the global warming, continuously impacting and changing our daily lives. To build a sustainable environment and society, various energy technologies have been developed and introduced. Among them, energy harvesting, converting ambient environmental energy into electrical energy, has emerged as one of the promising technologies for a variety of energy applications. In particular, a photo (electro) catalytic water splitting system, coupled with emerging energy harvesting technology, has demonstrated high device performance, demonstrating its great social impact for the development of the new water splitting system. In this review article, we introduce and discuss in detail the emerging energy-harvesting technology for photo (electro) catalytic water splitting applications. The article includes fundamentals of photocatalytic and electrocatalytic water splitting and water splitting applications coupled with the emerging energy-harvesting technologies using piezoelectric, piezo-phototronic, pyroelectric, triboelectric, and photovoltaic effects. We comprehensively deal with different mechanisms in water splitting processes with respect to the energy harvesting processes and their effect on the water splitting systems. Lastly, new opportunities in energy harvesting-assisted water splitting are introduced together with future research directions that need to be investigated for further development of new types of water splitting systems.

scholarly journals Design and Demonstration of Large Scale Cu2O Photocathodes with Metal Grid Structure for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 7422
Author(s):  
Min-Kyu Son
Keyword(s):  
Water Splitting ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Grid Structure ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Intrinsic Conductivity ◽  
Metal Grid ◽  
Splitting System ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Better Than

Upscaling of photoelectrode for a practical photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting system is still challenging because the PEC performance of large-scale photoelectrode is significantly low, compared to the lab scale photoelectrode. In an effort to overcome this challenge, sputtered gold (Au) and copper (Cu) grid lines were introduced to improve the PEC performance of large-scale cuprous oxide (Cu2O) photocathode in this work. It was demonstrated that Cu grid lines are more effective than Au grid lines to improve the PEC performance of large-scale Cu2O photocathode because its intrinsic conductivity and quality of grid lines are better than ones containing Au grid lines. As a result, the PEC performance of a 25-cm2 scaled Cu2O photocathode with Cu grid lines was almost double than one without grid lines, resulting in an improved charge transport in the large area substrate by Cu grid lines. Finally, a 50-cm2 scaled Cu2O photocathode with Cu grid lines was tested in an outdoor condition under natural sun. This is the first outdoor PEC demonstration of large-scale Cu2O photocathode with Cu grid lines, which gives insight into the development of efficient upscaled PEC photoelectrode.

A highly efficient and durable water splitting system: platinum sub-nanocluster functionalized nickel–iron layered double hydroxide as the cathode and hierarchical nickel–iron selenide as the anode

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 2831-2837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Yan ◽  
Peng Yan ◽  
Tong Wei ◽  
Guiling Wang ◽  
Kui Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Splitting ◽  
Layered Double Hydroxide ◽  
Layered Double Hydroxides ◽  
Nickel Iron ◽  
Iron Selenide ◽  
Highly Efficient ◽  
Double Hydroxide ◽  
Double Hydroxides ◽  
Splitting System

A highly-efficient water splitting device is assembled with the platinum sub-nanoclusters functionalized nickel iron layered double hydroxides and hierarchical nickel iron selenides.

Solar Hydrogen Production: Direct Water Splitting Into Hydrogen and Oxygen by New Photocatalysts Under Visible Light Irradiation

Solar Energy ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironori Arakawa ◽  
Zhigang Zou ◽  
Kazuhiro Sayama ◽  
Ryu Abe
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Yield ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Visible Light ◽  
Water Splitting ◽  
Visible Light Irradiation ◽  
Light Irradiation ◽  
Solar Hydrogen ◽  
Solar Hydrogen Production ◽  
Natural Photosynthesis ◽  
Splitting System

The photocatalytic splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy is one of the most attractive renewable sources of hydrogen fuel. Therefore, considerable efforts have been paid in developing photocatalysts capable of using visible light, which accounts for about 43% of the solar energy. However such a photocatalyst has not been developed so far. We have developed a new Ni-doped indium-tantalum oxide photocatalyst, In1-xNixTaO4 (x = 0.0∼0.2), which induced direct splitting of water into stoichiometric amount of oxygen and hydrogen under visible light irradiation with a quantum yield of about 0.66% at 420.7 nm. We have also developed a new two-step water splitting system using two different semiconductor photocatalysts, Pt/WO3 photocatalyst for oxygen evolution and Pt/SrTiO3(Cr-Ta-doped) photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution, and a redox mediator, I−/IO3−, mimicking the Z-scheme mechanism of the natural photosynthesis. The quantum yield of this system was about 0.1% at 420.7nm. Both photocatalytic methods are the first examples for visible light water splitting system in the world.

scholarly journals An experimental and modeling/simulation-based evaluation of the efficiency and operational performance characteristics of an integrated, membrane-free, neutral pH solar-driven water-splitting system

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 3371-3380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Jin ◽  
Karl Walczak ◽  
Meenesh R. Singh ◽  
Chris Karp ◽  
Nathan S. Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Splitting ◽  
Performance Characteristics ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Solar Hydrogen ◽  
Modeling Simulation ◽  
Neutral Ph ◽  
System P ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Splitting System

An experimental and modeling based evaluation of a solar-hydrogen device that operates in electrolytes buffered at near-neutral pH.

Dye-Sensitized Photocatalyst System for Water Splitting Into H2 and O2 Under Visible Light Irradiation

Solar Energy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryu Abe ◽  
Kazuhiro Sayama ◽  
Hironori Arakawa
Keyword(s):  
Visible Light ◽  
Water Splitting ◽  
Visible Light Irradiation ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
H2 Production ◽  
Light Irradiation ◽  
Mixed Solution ◽  
Tio2 Photocatalysts ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Splitting System

H2 production from a water-acetonitrile mixed solution containing iodide electron donor was investigated over dye-sensitized Pt/TiO2 photocatalysts under visible light irradiation, as a part of water splitting system using iodide redox mediator. The rates of H2 evolution were decreased with the increase of the water ratio in the mixed solutions, because of the decrease in energy gap between the redox potential of I3−/I− and the HOMO levels of the dyes, which lowing the efficiency of electron transfer from I− to dye.

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