For the first time, Northwestern University scientists have watched water molecules in real-time as they prepared to give up electrons to form oxygen. In the crucial moment before producing oxygen, ...

Water splitting has long been hailed as a promising path to clean hydrogen fuel. But while the process looks elegant on paper, it turns out to be far less efficient in practice, demanding ...

Hydrogen has long been billed as the clean fuel that could power steel mills, cargo ships and even long-haul trucks without pumping carbon into the atmosphere, but splitting water to make it has ...

To explore the reason why water splitting suffers from inefficiency, the researchers applied a sophisticated new light-based technique called phase-resolved second harmonic generation. Shown here, the ...

Hydrogen (H 2) is a promising fuel for reducing greenhouse gases, especially if produced by using renewable energy to split water molecules (H 2 O). But as simple as it may seem to break water into ...

Scientists in India said they have developed a scalable next-generation device that produces green hydrogen by splitting water molecules using only solar energy. A group at the Bengaluru-based Centre ...

Electrocatalysts play a key role in enabling hydrogen generation through water splitting. Among the latest materials under investigation, two-dimensional (2D) materials known as MXenes have shown ...

For the first time, researchers have managed to isolate and directly observe individual oxygen atoms inside liquid water, catching a substance that usually hides behind the familiar H 2 O formula in ...

The copper–chlorine (Cu–Cl) thermochemical cycle represents a promising pathway for sustainable hydrogen generation by utilising high‐temperature heat sources to drive endothermic reactions that split ...

Water oxidation offers a promising path to achieve sustainable energy by efficiently generating oxygen. This study investigates how optimizing Ru(II) photosensitizers, metal oxide catalysts, and pH ...

Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo, led by Assistant Professor Megumi Okazaki, have identified key factors affecting water-splitting efficiency in a study published in Chem Catalysis. The ...