A new type of solar panel converted water into hydrogen and oxygen with 9% efficiency, duplicating a critical phase in natural photosynthesis.
Outside, it marks a significant advancement in technology, being roughly ten times more efficient than previous solar water-splitting efforts.
Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power
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The greatest advantage is lowering the cost of sustainable hydrogen. This is made possible by downsizing the semiconductor, which is normally the costliest component of the device, as per ScienceDaily.
The self-healing semiconductor developed by scientists can resist focused light equivalent to 160 suns.
Humans now create hydrogen from the fossil fuel methane, consuming a significant amount of fossil energy in the process.
Plants, on the other hand, use sunshine to extract hydrogen atoms from…