{"id":142552,"date":"2022-07-20T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chiral-molecules-beat-magnets-when-it-comes-to-boosting-water-splitting"},"modified":"2022-07-20T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:22:32","slug":"chiral-molecules-beat-magnets-when-it-comes-to-boosting-water-splitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chiral-molecules-beat-magnets-when-it-comes-to-boosting-water-splitting","title":{"rendered":"Chiral molecules beat magnets when it comes to boosting water splitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chiral-molecules-beat-magnets-when-it-comes-to-boosting-water-splitting.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New electrocatalysis electrodes have been created that are simpler and cheaper than conventional ones, and can substantially increase the efficiency of water splitting. Decorated with chiral molecules like helicenes, these devices double the activity of the oxygen evolution reaction, the bottleneck of the process, and improve its selectivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018With electrocatalysis, we [can] use electrons from renewable sources [like solar and wind] to produce clean chemicals and fuels,\u2019 explains <a href=\"https:\/\/people.epfl.ch\/magali.lingenfelder\/publications?lang=en\">Magal\u00ed Lingenfelder<\/a> from the Max Planck\u2013EPFL laboratory for molecular nanoscience and technology, in Switzerland, who led the study. In this work, her team focused on the oxygen evolution reaction. \u2018It\u2019s the bottleneck of water splitting,\u2019 she says. \u2018We wanted to increase its performance with cheap, simple solutions.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New electrocatalysis electrodes have been created that are simpler and cheaper than conventional ones, and can substantially increase the efficiency of water splitting. Decorated with chiral molecules like helicenes, these devices double the activity of the oxygen evolution reaction, the bottleneck of the process, and improve its selectivity. \u2018With electrocatalysis, we [can] use electrons from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142552","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}