Materials for solar fuels and chemicals

JH Montoya, LC Seitz, P Chakthranont, A Vojvodic… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The conversion of sunlight into fuels and chemicals is an attractive prospect for the storage
of renewable energy, and photoelectrocatalytic technologies represent a pathway by which …

Photoelectrochemical water splitting: a road from stable metal oxides to protected thin film solar cells

C Ros, T Andreu, JR Morante - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has attracted great attention during past decades
thanks to the possibility to reduce the production costs of hydrogen or other solar fuels, by …

NiFe‐based (oxy) hydroxide catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction in non‐acidic electrolytes

F Dionigi, P Strasser - Advanced Energy Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
NiFe‐based (oxy) hydroxides are highly active catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction in
alkaline electrolyte solutions. These catalysts can be synthesized in different ways leading to …

Design criteria, operating conditions, and nickel–iron hydroxide catalyst materials for selective seawater electrolysis

F Dionigi, T Reier, Z Pawolek, M Gliech… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Seawater is an abundant water resource on our planet and its direct electrolysis has the
advantage that it would not compete with activities demanding fresh water. Oxygen …

Strategies for stable water splitting via protected photoelectrodes

D Bae, B Seger, PCK Vesborg, O Hansen… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) solar-fuel conversion is a promising approach to provide clean
and storable fuel (eg, hydrogen and methanol) directly from sunlight, water and CO2 …

Photocatalysis fundamentals and surface modification of TiO2 nanomaterials

J Wen, X Li, W Liu, Y Fang, J **e, Y Xu - Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2015 - Elsevier
As a green and sustainable technology, heterogeneous photocatalysis using
semiconductors has received much attention during the past decades because of its …

Thin-film materials for the protection of semiconducting photoelectrodes in solar-fuel generators

S Hu, NS Lewis, JW Ager, J Yang… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The electrochemical instability of semiconductors in aqueous electrolytes has impeded the
development of robust sunlight-driven water-splitting systems. We review the use of …

Creating highly active atomic layer deposited NiO electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

KL Nardi, N Yang, CF Dickens… - Advanced Energy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) provides a promising route for depositing uniform thin
coatings of electrocatalysts useful in many technologies, including the splitting of water. For …

Design principles for maximizing photovoltage in metal-oxide-protected water-splitting photoanodes

AG Scheuermann, JP Lawrence, KW Kemp, T Ito… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Metal oxide protection layers for photoanodes may enable the development of large-scale
solar fuel and solar chemical synthesis, but the poor photovoltages often reported so far will …

In situ formation of molecular Ni-Fe active sites on heteroatom-doped graphene as a heterogeneous electrocatalyst toward oxygen evolution

J Wang, L Gan, W Zhang, Y Peng, H Yu, Q Yan… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Molecularly well-defined Ni sites at heterogeneous interfaces were derived from the
incorporation of Ni2+ ions into heteroatom-doped graphene. The molecular Ni sites on …