Solar Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production: Current Status and Future Challenges

Jenny Schneider; Tarek A. Kandiel; Detlef W. Bahnemann

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1628-3_3

Solar Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production: Current Status and Future Challenges

Jenny Schneider
, Tarek A. Kandiel^*
, Detlef W. Bahnemann

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Due to the increase of the worldwide demand for energy along with the global warming and the increasing level of atmospheric CO₂, solar hydrogen has been proposed as an optimal fuel as it can be produced from water using solar energy which emerges as the most promising energy source in terms of abundance and sustainability. So far the main commercial process for producing hydrogen is steam reforming of hydrocarbons which is connected with a CO₂ emission disadvantage. Carbon free hydrogen production can be achieved by water splitting through an electrolyser powered by photovoltaics, but a potentially more cost effective route is to perform direct photocatalytic water splitting using semiconductor photocatalysts. Herein, the authors will present the principles of this process, the current progress in the field, and future challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nanostructure Science and Technology
Publisher	Springer Publishing Company
Pages	41-74
Number of pages	34
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1628-3_3
State	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Nanostructure Science and Technology
Volume	174
ISSN (Print)	1571-5744
ISSN (Electronic)	2197-7976

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Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Hydrogen Production
Photocatalytic Activity
Photogenerated Electron
Photogenerated Hole
Water Splitting

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Chemistry (miscellaneous)
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
Medicine (miscellaneous)

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Solar Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production: Current Status and Future Challenges

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