When it comes to greener ways to power our cars, two main avenues are emerging: battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (HCEVs) like the Toyota Mirai. Although ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers in Sweden unveiled a new concept for producing hydrogen energy more efficiently, splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen without the dangerous risk of mixing the two gases ...

The MXene class of materials has many talents. An international team has now demonstrated that MXenes, properly functionalized, are excellent catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction in ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that doubles the amount of hydrogen produced when splitting water molecules with electricity. The method works by adding a simple organic molecule and a ...

Seawater’s mix of hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and other elements makes it vital to life on Earth. But that same complex chemistry has made it difficult to extract hydrogen gas for clean energy uses. Now ...

Japanese researchers are closing in on a long promised energy dream, using only sunlight and water to generate clean hydrogen fuel with no smokestacks or power cables in sight. Their latest technology ...

Silicon absorbs both visible and infrared light. It has historically been a top choice for solar cells (also known as photovoltaic cells) and semiconductors, owing to this and other properties, ...

University of Michigan researchers developed a new photocatalytic water splitting system that is reportedly able to reach a 9.2% solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency. The proposed system uses the higher ...