{"id":117418,"date":"2020-12-20T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/chemical-research-breakthrough-could-transform-clean-energy-technology"},"modified":"2020-12-20T01:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:05:40","slug":"chemical-research-breakthrough-could-transform-clean-energy-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/chemical-research-breakthrough-could-transform-clean-energy-technology","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Research Breakthrough Could Transform Clean Energy Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemical-research-breakthrough-could-transform-clean-energy-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, a breakthrough by researchers at UVA\u2019s College and Graduate School of Arts &amp; Sciences, the California Institute of Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory could eliminate a critical obstacle from the process, a discovery that represents a giant stride toward a clean-energy future.<\/p>\n<p>One way to harness solar energy is by using solar electricity to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen produced by the process is stored as fuel, in a form that can be transferred from one place to another and used to generate power upon demand. To split water molecules into their component parts, a catalyst is necessary, but the catalytic materials currently used in the process, also known as the oxygen evolution reaction, are not efficient enough to make the process practical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, a breakthrough by researchers at UVA\u2019s College and Graduate School of Arts &amp; Sciences, the California Institute of Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory could eliminate a critical obstacle from the process, a discovery that represents a giant stride toward a clean-energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}