Water splitting
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
The generation of green energy is a key issue of our time. Hydrogen has emerged as a clean and renewable energy source, but its production remains a challenge. One route to achieving this on an industrial scale may be through the efficient splitting of water to produce oxygen and hydrogen through the application of an electric current (electrocatalysis), or light (photocatalysis). Research in this field aims to refine the conditions for water splitting processes in order that they might be expanded to an economically viable level, while retaining environmental advantages over traditional energy generation methods. Recently developed strategies increase the efficiency and safety of this process. These include using redox mediators to decouple the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions and replacing the oxygen evolution reaction with more thermodynamically favorable organic oxidation reactions.
The papers featured in this Collection will showcase advances in the methods and technologies of hydrogen production through electrocatalysis and photocatalysis of water and related strategies.
Editors
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Xiaobo Chen, PhD
University of Missouri – Kansas City, USA
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Ho Won Jang, PhD
Seoul National University, South Korea
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Carlos Alberto Martínez-Huitle, PhD
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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Rita Mazzoni, PhD
Department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari” – University of Bologna, Italy
