{"id":79698,"date":"2018-06-18T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/promising-new-material-has-the-right-properties-to-capture-solar-energy-split-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxygen"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:02:57","slug":"promising-new-material-has-the-right-properties-to-capture-solar-energy-split-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/promising-new-material-has-the-right-properties-to-capture-solar-energy-split-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxygen","title":{"rendered":"Promising new material has the right properties to capture solar energy, split water into hydrogen and oxygen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/promising-new-material-has-the-right-properties-to-capture-solar-energy-split-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxygen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar energy is clean and abundant. But when the sun isn\u2019t shining, you must store the energy in batteries or through a process called photocatalysis\u2014in which solar energy is used to make fuels. In photocatalytic water splitting, sunlight separates water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen and oxygen can then be recombined in a fuel cell to release energy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new class of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a>\u2014halide double perovskites\u2014may have just the right properties to split water, according to a newly published paper in <i>Applied Physics Letters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can come up with a material that can be useful as a water-splitting photocatalyst, then it would be an enormous breakthrough,\u201d said Feliciano Giustino, a co-author on the paper.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-06-material-properties-capture-solar-energy.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;06-material-properties-capture-solar-energy.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar energy is clean and abundant. But when the sun isn\u2019t shining, you must store the energy in batteries or through a process called photocatalysis\u2014in which solar energy is used to make fuels. In photocatalytic water splitting, sunlight separates water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen and oxygen can then be recombined in a fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79698","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79765,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79698\/revisions\/79765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}