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Vol. 11 (2019)

Recent Progress and Approaches on Carbon-Free Energy from Water Splitting

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0335-4
Aslam Hossain
Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Natural Science and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
K. Sakthipandi
Department of Physics, Sethu Institute of Technology, Kariapatti, Tamil Nadu 626 115, India
A. K. M. Atique Ullah
Nanoscience and Technology Research Laboratory, Atomic Energy Centre, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Sanjay Roy
Department of Chemistry, Shibpur Dinobundhoo Institution (College), Howrah, West Bengal 711102, India

Corresponding Author: K. Sakthipandi

sakthipandi@gmail.com

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 11 (2019), Article Number: 103

Abstract

Sunlight is the most abundant renewable energy resource, providing the earth with enough power that is capable of taking care of all of humanity’s desires—a hundred times over. However, as it is at times diffuse and intermittent, it raises issues concerning how best to reap this energy and store it for times when the Sun is not shining. With increasing population in the world and modern economic development, there will be an additional increase in energy demand. Devices that use daylight to separate water into individual chemical elements may well be the answer to this issue, as water splitting produces an ideal fuel. If such devices that generate fuel were to become widely adopted, they must be low in cost, both for supplying and operation. Therefore, it is essential to research for cheap technologies for water ripping. This review summarizes the progress made toward such development, the open challenges existing, and the approaches undertaken to generate carbon-free energy through water splitting.


Highlights:


1 Different approaches for efficient carbon-free energy from water splitting are summarized.
2 Step-wise evolution of water splitting research is highlighted with current progress.
3 It describes the open challenges of charge transport properties and future research direction.

Keywords

Water splitting Renewable energy sources Hydrogen generation Photocatalysis Nanostructure
Hossain, Aslam, K. Sakthipandi, A. K. M. Atique Ullah, and Sanjay Roy. 2019. “Recent Progress and Approaches on Carbon-Free Energy from Water Splitting”. Nano-Micro Letters 11 (November):103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0335-4.
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