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Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

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Solar photoelectrochemical (PEC) hydrogen production is one of the promising technologies that could potentially provide a clean, cost-effective, and domestically produced energy carrier by taking advantage of the *120,000 TW of radiation that continually strikes the earth’s surface. To date, no cost-effective materials system satisfies all of the technical requirements listed above for practical hydrogen production. Despite the challenges, there are promising pathways for achieving the important goal of efficient, cost-effective PEC hydrogen production. For continued progress in overcoming the most important remaining scientific and engineering barriers, widely accepted standards in the characterization and reporting of PEC materials and devices are needed.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-5025, USA

    Zhebo Chen & Thomas F. Jaramillo

  2. Hydrogen Technologies and Systems Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA

    Todd G. Deutsch, Huyen N. Dinh & John Turner

  3. Department of Chemical System Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Kazunari Domen

  4. National Center for Photovoltaics, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA

    Keith Emery

  5. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California—Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-5080, USA

    Arnold J. Forman

  6. Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

    Nicolas Gaillard

  7. Fuel Cell Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington DC, 20585, USA

    Roxanne Garland & Eric Miller

  8. Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada—Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, 89154-4003, USA

    Clemens Heske

  9. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California—Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-5080, USA

    Alan Kleiman-Shwarsctein

  10. Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwall, Saudi Arabia

    Kazuhiro Takanabe

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Chen, Z. et al. (2013). Introduction. In: Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8298-7_1

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