{"id":158895,"date":"2023-02-24T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/2d-janus-materials-could-harvest-abundant-hydrogen-fuel"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:23:30","slug":"2d-janus-materials-could-harvest-abundant-hydrogen-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/2d-janus-materials-could-harvest-abundant-hydrogen-fuel","title":{"rendered":"2D Janus materials could harvest abundant hydrogen fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2d-janus-materials-could-harvest-abundant-hydrogen-fuel3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several studies have predicted that the water splitting reaction could be catalyzed by certain groups of 2D materials\u2014each measuring just a few atoms thick. One particularly promising group are named 2D Janus materials, whose two sides each feature a different molecular composition.<\/p>\n<p>Through new calculations detailed in <i>The European Physical Journal B<\/i>, Junfeng Ren and colleagues at Shandong Normal University in China present a new group of four 2D Janus materials, which could be especially well suited to the task.<\/p>\n<p>Since hydrogen releases an abundance of energy when combusted, with only water as a byproduct, it is now widely seen as an excellent alternative to fossil fuels. Splitting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water molecules<\/a> involves a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/redox+reaction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">redox reaction<\/a>, where <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrons<\/a> and holes participate in reduction and oxidation reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several studies have predicted that the water splitting reaction could be catalyzed by certain groups of 2D materials\u2014each measuring just a few atoms thick. One particularly promising group are named 2D Janus materials, whose two sides each feature a different molecular composition. Through new calculations detailed in The European Physical Journal B, Junfeng Ren and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158895","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}