{"id":212212,"date":"2025-04-23T14:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sunlight-and-sugarcane-waste-power-hydrogen-production-at-rate-four-times-higher-than-commercialization-benchmark"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:10:39","slug":"sunlight-and-sugarcane-waste-power-hydrogen-production-at-rate-four-times-higher-than-commercialization-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sunlight-and-sugarcane-waste-power-hydrogen-production-at-rate-four-times-higher-than-commercialization-benchmark","title":{"rendered":"Sunlight and sugarcane waste power hydrogen production at rate four times higher than commercialization benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sunlight-and-sugarcane-waste-power-hydrogen-production-at-rate-four-times-higher-than-commercialization-benchmark2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A technology for hydrogen (H<sub>2<\/sub>) production has been developed by a team of researchers led by Professors Seungho Cho and Kwanyong Seo from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with Professor Ji-Wook Jang\u2019s team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST.<\/p>\n<p>Their research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58000-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative method utilizes biomass derived from sugarcane waste and silicon photoelectrodes to generate H<sub>2<\/sub> exclusively using sunlight, achieving a production rate four times higher than the commercialization benchmark set by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technology for hydrogen (H2) production has been developed by a team of researchers led by Professors Seungho Cho and Kwanyong Seo from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with Professor Ji-Wook Jang\u2019s team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST. Their research is published in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212212","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}