{"id":231854,"date":"2026-02-22T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/all-in-one-single-atom-could-power-both-sides-of-water-splitting"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:05:07","slug":"all-in-one-single-atom-could-power-both-sides-of-water-splitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/all-in-one-single-atom-could-power-both-sides-of-water-splitting","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All-in-one,\u2019 single-atom could power both sides of water splitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/all-in-one-single-atom-could-power-both-sides-of-water-splitting3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Green hydrogen production technology, which utilizes renewable energy to produce eco-friendly hydrogen without carbon emissions, is gaining attention as a core technology for addressing global warming. Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis, a process that separates hydrogen and oxygen by applying electrical energy to water, requiring low-cost, high-efficiency, high-performance catalysts.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Dr. Na Jongbeom and Dr. Kim Jong Min from Korea Institute of Science and Technology\u2019s Center for Extreme Materials Research has developed next-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-06-heterostructure-catalyst-effective-hydrogen.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">water electrolysis<\/a> catalyst technology. This technology integrates a single-atom \u201cAll-in-one\u201d catalyst precisely controlled down to the atomic level with binder-free electrode technology. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/aenm.202506645\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.<\/p>\n<p>A key feature of this technology is its ability to stably perform both <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-11-hybrid-catalyst-oxygen-production.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">hydrogen evolution<\/a> and oxygen evolution reactions simultaneously on a single electrode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green hydrogen production technology, which utilizes renewable energy to produce eco-friendly hydrogen without carbon emissions, is gaining attention as a core technology for addressing global warming. Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis, a process that separates hydrogen and oxygen by applying electrical energy to water, requiring low-cost, high-efficiency, high-performance catalysts. A research team led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231854","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=231854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}