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Catalysts for Solar Water Splitting
Author(s) -
Messinger Johannes
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.200800226
Subject(s) - water splitting , catalysis , solar cell , inorganic chemistry , ion , chemistry , materials science , photochemistry , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , photocatalysis , organic chemistry , engineering , biochemistry
Making H 2 while the sun shines : Recently, an inorganic catalyst based on Co 2+ and phosphate ions was developed that operates in neutral water under ambient conditions to produce O 2 from H 2 O at low overpotentials. Coupling the setup to a counter electrode at which H 2 formation takes place as well as to a solar cell could lead to solar water splitting into H 2 and O 2 .