{"id":200183,"date":"2024-11-26T01:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/spin-powered-crystals-dramatically-improve-water-splitting-process-for-clean-hydrogen-production"},"modified":"2024-11-26T01:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:45:57","slug":"spin-powered-crystals-dramatically-improve-water-splitting-process-for-clean-hydrogen-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/spin-powered-crystals-dramatically-improve-water-splitting-process-for-clean-hydrogen-production","title":{"rendered":"Spin-powered crystals dramatically improve water splitting process for clean hydrogen production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spin-powered-crystals-dramatically-improve-water-splitting-process-for-clean-hydrogen-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water splitting\u2014breaking water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen\u2014is a promising pathway to sustainable energy. However, this process has long been challenged by the slow chemical kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction that make hydrogen production inefficient and costly.<\/p>\n<p>An international research team has now uncovered a solution. By using special crystals with unique intrinsic \u201cchiral\u201d structures\u2014meaning they have a distinctive left or right-handed atomic arrangement\u2014researchers have dramatically improved the water splitting process.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-024-01674-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water splitting\u2014breaking water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen\u2014is a promising pathway to sustainable energy. However, this process has long been challenged by the slow chemical kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction that make hydrogen production inefficient and costly. An international research team has now uncovered a solution. By using special crystals with unique intrinsic \u201cchiral\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200183","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}