Water molecules flip their orientation before splitting into hydrogen and oxygen. These acrobatics require significant energy, leading to the reaction’s inefficiency. Researchers quantified the ...

As the global pursuit for sustainable energy solutions intensifies, water splitting remains a promising avenue for producing ...

"When you split water, two half-reactions occur ... "Electrodes are negatively charged, so the water molecule wants to put its positively charged hydrogen atoms toward the electrode's surface ...

Water splitting has long been hailed as a promising path to clean hydrogen fuel. But while the process looks elegant on paper ...

A U of A engineering researcher is using sunlight and semiconductor catalysts to produce hydrogen by splitting apart water ...

Electrocatalysts play a key role in enabling hydrogen generation through water splitting. Among the latest materials under investigation, two-dimensional (2D) materials known as MXenes have shown ...

Scandium-doped titanium dioxide (TiO 2) significantly enhances photocatalytic water splitting efficiency, achieving an apparent quantum yield of 30.3% and a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 0.34%.