Scientists have created an oxygen-evolution catalyst that combines with semiconductors for solar water splitting, an advance that assists the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy in the form of hydrogen and oxygen. When evenly applied to a semiconductor, the film catalyses solar water splitting for energy production and other applications The discovery was made in the lab of Kenton Whitmire, a Rice University professor of chemistry, with assistance from researchers at the University of Houston. They found that growing a layer of an active catalyst directly on the surface of a light-absorbing nanorod array...
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