{"id":147364,"date":"2022-10-01T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-aerogel-could-produce-70-times-more-hydrogen-than-other-methods"},"modified":"2022-10-01T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T04:22:18","slug":"new-aerogel-could-produce-70-times-more-hydrogen-than-other-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-aerogel-could-produce-70-times-more-hydrogen-than-other-methods","title":{"rendered":"New aerogel could produce 70 times more hydrogen than other methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-aerogel-could-produce-70-times-more-hydrogen-than-other-methods3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen generation using abundant solar energy together with semiconductor photocatalysts holds significant potential to produce clean and sustainable energy carriers.<\/p>\n<p>ETH Zurich researchers have developed a new photocatalyst made from an aerogel that could enable more efficient hydrogen production. The aerogel increases the efficiency of converting light into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/powerpaste-high-density-safe-easily-transportable-hydrogen-energy-fuel\/17468\/\">hydrogen energy<\/a>, producing up to 70 times more hydrogen than rival methods.<\/p>\n<p>Aerogels are extraordinary materials that have set Guinness World Records more than a dozen times, including the honorary position of becoming one of the world\u2019s lightest solids. Professor Markus Niederberger from the Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials at ETH Zurich has been working with these special materials for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen generation using abundant solar energy together with semiconductor photocatalysts holds significant potential to produce clean and sustainable energy carriers. ETH Zurich researchers have developed a new photocatalyst made from an aerogel that could enable more efficient hydrogen production. The aerogel increases the efficiency of converting light into hydrogen energy, producing up to 70 times [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147364","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}