{"id":168020,"date":"2023-07-21T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/device-makes-hydrogen-from-sunlight-with-record-efficiency"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:32:14","slug":"device-makes-hydrogen-from-sunlight-with-record-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/device-makes-hydrogen-from-sunlight-with-record-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Device makes hydrogen from sunlight with record efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/device-makes-hydrogen-from-sunlight-with-record-efficiency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice University engineers can turn sunlight into hydrogen with record-breaking efficiency thanks to a device that combines next-generation halide perovskite semiconductors with electrocatalysts in a single, durable, cost-effective and scalable device.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology is a significant step forward for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/clean+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">clean energy<\/a> and could serve as a platform for a wide range of chemical reactions that use solar-harvested electricity to convert feedstocks into fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Aditya Mohite built the integrated photoreactor using an anticorrosion barrier that insulates the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/semiconductor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">semiconductor<\/a> from water without impeding the transfer of electrons. According to a study published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, the device achieved a 20.8% solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University engineers can turn sunlight into hydrogen with record-breaking efficiency thanks to a device that combines next-generation halide perovskite semiconductors with electrocatalysts in a single, durable, cost-effective and scalable device. The new technology is a significant step forward for clean energy and could serve as a platform for a wide range of chemical reactions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168020","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}