Solar Water Splitting Using Semiconductor Photocatalyst Powders

Kazuhiro Takanabe

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Abstract

Solar energy conversion is essential to address the gap between energy production and increasing demand. Large scale energy generation from solar energy can only be achieved through equally large scale collection of the solar spectrum. Overall water splitting using heterogeneous photocatalysts with a single semiconductor enables the direct generation of H from photoreactors and is one of the most economical technologies for large-scale production of solar fuels. Efficient photocatalyst materials are essential to make this process feasible for future technologies. To achieve efficient photocatalysis for overall water splitting, all of the parameters involved at different time scales should be improved because the overall efficiency is obtained by the multiplication of all these fundamental efficiencies. Accumulation of knowledge ranging from solid-state physics to electrochemistry and a multidisciplinary approach to conduct various measurements are inevitable to be able to understand photocatalysis fully and to improve its efficiency.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationTopics in Current Chemistry
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages73-103
Number of pages31
ISBN (Print)9783319230986
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry

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