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Water electrolysis is promising for industrial hydrogen production to achieve a sustainable and green hydrogen economy, but the high cost of the technology limits its market share. Developing efficient yet economic electrocatalysts is…

Large scale production of hydrogen by electrochemical water splitting is considered as a promising technology to address critical energy challenges caused by the extensive use of fossil fuels. Although nonprecious nickel-based catalysts…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Yuting Luo , Zhiyuan Zhang , Fengning Yang , Jiong Li , Zhibo Liu , Wencai Ren , Shuo Zhang , Bilu Liu

The transition to a green hydrogen economy demands robust, scalable, and sustainable anodes for alkaline water electrolysis operating at industrial current densities (>1 A/cm2). However, achieving high activity and long-term stability under…

Due to the low conductivity of pure water, using an electrolyte is common for achieving efficient water electrolysis. In this paper, we have broken through this common sense by using deep-sub-Debye-length nanogap electrochemical cells for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Yifei Wang , S. R. Narayanan , Wei Wu

Although photoelectrochemical water splitting is likely to be an important and powerful tool to provide environmentally friendly hydrogen, most developments in this field have been conducted on a laboratory scale so far. In order for the…

Due to the energy supply pressure caused by non-renewable fuels as well as the environment-related issues, the efficient conversion of solar-chemical energy via photo-induced water splitting is one of the promising strategies to address the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Zhexu Xi

Photocatalytic water splitting offers a viable and sustainable method for hydrogen production. MXenes, a class of 2D transition-metal carbides/nitrides, have emerged as potential photocatalysts and co-catalysts due to their tunable…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 C. B. Subba , Prasad Mattipally , J. Sivakumar , A. Laref , A. Yvaz , D. P. Rai , Z. Pachuau

The transition towards carbon-neutral chemical production is challenging due to the fundamental reliance of the chemical sector on petrochemical feedstocks. Electrolysis-based manufacturing, powered by renewables, is a rapidly evolving…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Magda H. Barecka , Joel W. Ager

Water splitting is unanimously recognized as environment friendly, potentially low cost and renewable energy solution based on the future hydrogen economy. Especially appealing is photo-catalytic water splitting whereby a suitably chosen…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 V. G. Kravets , A. N. Grigorenko

In this review, we discuss disruptive decoupled water splitting schemes, in which the concurrent production of hydrogen and oxygen in close proximity to each other in conventional electrolysis is replaced by time- or space-separated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Avigail Landman , Gideon S. Grader , Avner Rothschild

Solid-state electrolytes, by enabling lithium metal anodes, may significantly increase the energy density of current lithium-ion batteries. However, similar to their liquid counterparts, these hard and stiff electrolytes can still be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Rajeev Gopal , Longan Wu , Youngju Lee , Jinzhao Guo , Peng Bai

Electrocatalysis provides an avenue for transitioning the global energy dependence from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. While electrocatalytic reactions are being used for several decades, recently, there is a growing interest for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Varada Purohit , Avdhoot Datar

In electrochemical systems, an understanding of the underlying transport processes is required to aid in their better design. This includes knowledge of possible near-electrode convective mixing that can enhance measured currents. Here, for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Nakul Pande , Jeffery A. Wood , Guido Mul , Detlef Lohse , Bastian T. Mei , Dominik Krug

Renewable energy conversion and storage, and greenhouse gas emission-free technologies are within the primary tasks and challenges for the society. Hydrogen fuel, produced by alkaline water electrolysis is fulfilling all these demands,…

The rational design of bifunctional electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is essential for achieving efficient and cost-effective overall water splitting. Atomically dispersed…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-04 Jiahang Li , Suhang Li , Chong Yan , Jiajun Yu , Qinzhuang Liu , Ruo-Ya Wang , Dongwei Ma

Hydrogen has been identified as a clean, zero carbon, sustainable, and promising energy source for the future, and electrochemical water splitting for hydrogen production is an emission-free, efficient energy conversion technology. A major…

Water splitting reactions through photocatalysis is an efficient and sustainable technique for the generation of green energy. The photocatalyst's ability to effect simultaneous generation of hydrogen and oxygen, along with efficiency in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-10 Swati Shaw , Subhradip Ghosh

Paired electrolysis at industrial current densities offers an energy-efficient and sustainable alternative to thermocatalytic chemical synthesis by leveraging anodic and cathodic valorization. However, its industrial feasibility remains…

Solar water splitting provides a promising path for sustainable hydrogen production and solar energy storage. One of the greatest challenges towards large-scale utilization of this technology is reducing the hydrogen production cost. The…

Alkaline water electrolysis is considered a commercially viable option for large-scale hydrogen production. However, this process still faces challenges due to the high voltage (>1.65 V at 10 mA cm$^{-2}$) and its limited stability at…

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