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The Power of Absence
11 Mar 2025
An international research team explores, how tiny metal vacancies improve solar hydrogen technologies.
The sun delivers vast amounts of energy to the Earth daily, yet only a fraction is currently utilized economically. One promising method to convert solar energy into storable energy is splitting water (H2O) into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2). “This chemical reaction holds enormous future potential: H2 as a climate-friendly energy carrier, water as an abundant resource, and no harmful side reactions, just a few advantages. At the same time, photoelectrochemical water splitting is considered one of the ultimate challenges in the energy and catalysis research community,” explains Emiliano Cortés, Professor of Experimental Physics at LMU.