{"id":212395,"date":"2025-04-25T05:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/semiconductor-nanowires-capture-diffuse-sunlight-to-split-water-and-store-energy-as-hydrogen"},"modified":"2025-04-25T05:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:09:44","slug":"semiconductor-nanowires-capture-diffuse-sunlight-to-split-water-and-store-energy-as-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/semiconductor-nanowires-capture-diffuse-sunlight-to-split-water-and-store-energy-as-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"Semiconductor nanowires capture diffuse sunlight to split water and store energy as hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/semiconductor-nanowires-capture-diffuse-sunlight-to-split-water-and-store-energy-as-hydrogen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A U of A engineering researcher is using sunlight and semiconductor catalysts to produce hydrogen by splitting apart water molecules into their constituent elements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process to form the semiconductor, called thermal condensation polymerization, uses cheap and Earth-abundant materials, and could eventually lead to a more efficient, economical path to clean energy than existing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/solar+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar technologies<\/a>,\u201d says project lead Karthik Shankar of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an expert in the field of photocatalysis.<\/p>\n<p>In a collaboration between the U of A and the Technical University of Munich, results of the research were <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.5c01824\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U of A engineering researcher is using sunlight and semiconductor catalysts to produce hydrogen by splitting apart water molecules into their constituent elements. \u201cThe process to form the semiconductor, called thermal condensation polymerization, uses cheap and Earth-abundant materials, and could eventually lead to a more efficient, economical path to clean energy than existing solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212395","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=212395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}