Nanowires give ‘solar fuel cell’ efficiency a tenfold boost

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Nanowires give ‘solar fuel cell’ efficiency a tenfold boost

21 Luglio 2015 English hydrogen nanotech PV r&d R&D Ricerca e Industria 0
A solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and FOM Foundation present a very promising prototype of this in the journal Nature Communications

A solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and FOM Foundation  present a very promising prototype of this in the journal Nature Communications. The material gallium phosphide enables their solar cell to produce the clean fuel hydrogen gas from liquid water. Processing the gallium phosphide in the form of very small nanowires is novel and helps to boost the yield by a factor of ten. And does so using ten thousand times less precious material.

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