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Accolade for solar-hydrogen project
May 18, 2009 |
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A research project that aims to produce hydrogen on an environmentally friendly and cost-effective basis by using energy from the sun has won a prestigious E.ON research award.
Scientists develop a unique approach for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen
Apr 06, 2009 |
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The design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, driven by sunlight is among the most important challenges facing science today, underpinning the long term potential of hydrogen as a clean, sustainable ...
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Catalyst for water oxidation adopted from plants: a means for energy-efficient production of hydrogen?
Aug 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen will be one of the most important fuels of the future. It would be ideal to obtain hydrogen by splitting water instead of from petroleum. However, the electrolysis of water is a very ...
Efficient Catalysts for Making Oxygen for 'Artificial Photosynthesis'
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Institute for Molecular Science in Japan are trying to mimic part of the complex natural process of photosynthesis with ...
Unprecedented efficiency in producing hydrogen from water
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Scientists are reporting a major advance in technology for water photooxidation �using sunlight to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel from ordinary water. Michael Gratzel and colleagues in Switzerland note that nature ...
Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Scientists at Penn State University and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water. The findings are important ...
Hydrogen generation without the carbon footprint
Jul 15, 2008 |
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A greener, less expensive method to produce hydrogen for fuel may eventually be possible with the help of water, solar energy and nanotube diodes that use the entire spectrum of the sun's energy, according to Penn State researchers. ...
Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen
Feb 18, 2008 |
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Plants trees and algae do it. Even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, Penn State researchers have a proof-of-concept device that ...
Splitting Water with Sunlight
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Hydrogen is one of the most important fuels of the future, and the sun will be one of our most important sources of energy. Why not combine the two to produce hydrogen directly from solar energy without any detours involving ...
Chemists shed light on solar energy storage
Dec 08, 2006 |
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Chemistry's role in bridging the gap between solar energy's limited present use and enormous future potential was the topic of a recent article by MIT Professor Daniel G. Nocera and a colleague.
Clemson research could help turn hydrogen hype into 'hy'ways
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Americans will have a hard time driving on the future's highways if they don't have fuel. While hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, it's not readily available. Many researchers are working to develop fuel ...
Device Uses Solar Energy to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel (Update)
Apr 18, 2007 |
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Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated the feasibility of exploiting sunlight to transform a greenhouse gas into a useful product.
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