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Seawater electrolysis opens a new opportunity to lower the cost of hydrogen production from current water electrolysis technologies. However, due to the different characters such as the existence of chloride ions and insoluble solids in seawater, the electrocatalysts are suffering from severely degraded activity and stability. This chapter focuses on recent developments made in the field of electrocatalytic seawater splitting. Firstly, the basic principles and features of electrocatalytic seawater splitting are discussed. Secondly, recently reported materials used for the both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for electrocatalytic seawater splitting are described. Then, the current industrialization development of seawater electrolysis is introduced. Finally, several challenges and future perspectives in this field are summarized.

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Ying, J., Chen, JB., Dong, Y., Yang, XY. (2023). Electrocatalytic Seawater Splitting. In: Yang, XY. (eds) Photo-Driven Seawater Splitting for Hydrogen Production. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0510-2_1

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