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Hydrogen Production from Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

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Glossary

PEC cell:

Photoelectrochemical cell for water splitting that converts solar energy directly to hydrogen fuel from photoelectrolysis. It comprises a photoelectrode and a counter electrode immersed in an electrolyte solution.

PV cell:

Photovoltaic solar cell for electricity generation from sunlight.

Solar tandem cell:

Solar cell consisting of two or more absorbers stacked one over the others, which together convert more of the sunlight spectrum and therefore increase the overall cell efficiency.

PEC-PV tandem:

PV-assisted PEC water splitting system, i.e., an integrated PV-PEC device where a PV cell is stacked on a photoelectrode for providing the necessary bias voltage to photoelectrochemical water splitting.

Photoelectrode:

Photoelectrode is an electrode capable of initiating electrochemical transformations after absorbing light quanta (definition by IUPAC). In the solar water splitting context, photoelectrode is made of a semiconductor film on an electrically conductive...

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Dias, P., Mendes, A. (2019). Hydrogen Production from Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. In: Lipman, T., Weber, A. (eds) Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Production. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7789-5_957

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