{"id":182472,"date":"2024-02-11T03:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T09:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-scalable-photoelectrochemical-system-for-green-hydrogen-production"},"modified":"2024-02-11T03:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T09:22:56","slug":"a-scalable-photoelectrochemical-system-for-green-hydrogen-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-scalable-photoelectrochemical-system-for-green-hydrogen-production","title":{"rendered":"A scalable photoelectrochemical system for green hydrogen production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-scalable-photoelectrochemical-system-for-green-hydrogen-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If realized using solar energy or other renewable energy, water splitting could be a promising way of sustainably producing hydrogen (H<sub>2<\/sub>) on a large-scale. Most photoelectrochemical water splitting systems proposed so far, however, have been found to be either inefficient, unstable, or difficult to implement on a large-scale.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) recently set out to develop a scalable and efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) system to produce green hydrogen. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-023-01438-x\">proposed system<\/a>, outlined in <i>Nature Energy<\/i>, is based on an innovative formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI<sub>3<\/sub>) perovskite-based photoanode, encapsulated by an Ni foil\/NiFeOOH electrocatalyst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur group has thoroughly studied the challenges associated with practical solar hydrogen production,\u201d Jae Sung Lee, Professor of Energy &amp; Chemical Engineering at UNIST and co-author of the paper, told Tech Xplore. \u201cAs summarized in our <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2019\/cs\/c8cs00699g\">most recent review paper<\/a>, minimum 10% of solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency is required to develop viable practical PEC system, for which selecting an efficient material is the first criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If realized using solar energy or other renewable energy, water splitting could be a promising way of sustainably producing hydrogen (H2) on a large-scale. Most photoelectrochemical water splitting systems proposed so far, however, have been found to be either inefficient, unstable, or difficult to implement on a large-scale. Researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182472","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=182472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}