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Nanostructured Materials for Photolytic Hydrogen Production

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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Through Nanotechnology

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A hydrogen economy is often considered an attractive alternative to our current fossil fuel-based energy system. In order for such a hydrogen economy to become reality, several challenges associated with the production, storage, transportation and use of hydrogen must be solved. This chapter addresses the issue of hydrogen production. While the currently most widely used method to produce hydrogen is based on the conversion of fossil fuel resources and does not therefore fulfill the requirement of CO2 neutrality, we discuss here the photolytic production of hydrogen via water splitting. This scheme is based on energy input from the most powerful and ultimately sustainable energy source mankind has at its disposal: the sun. Moreover, no carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, and the method has potential for cost-effective large-scale production.

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    Note that wind power and hydropower are considered variations of solar energy here, and that solar energy, and to a large extent also geothermal energy, actually are based on nuclear processes.

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We acknowledge financial support by the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra, Dnr 2004-118), Ångpanneföreningen’s Foundation for Research and Development (09-370), the Environmental Foundation of the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers and N-INNER through the Solar Hydrogen project (P30938-1 Solväte).

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Zhu, J., Chakarov, D., Zäch, M. (2011). Nanostructured Materials for Photolytic Hydrogen Production. In: Zang, L. (eds) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Through Nanotechnology. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-638-2_13

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