The holy grail in the energy sector is splitting water efficiently and cheaply that will deliver the hydrogen economy. Standford researchers found cheap nickel-iron catalysts can be used for both electrodes with an incredible 82% efficiency.
------ Stanford Researchers Develop Water Splitter for Production of Clean-Burning Hydrogen Fuel
Published on June 25, 2015 at 4:33 AM
Stanford graduate student Haotian Wang examines the novel water splitter that he and his colleagues developed to produce clean-burning hydrogen from water 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a cheap water splitter with a single catalyst to separate hydrogen and oxygen continuously. The device could be potentially used as a renewable source of clean-burning hydrogen fuel for industrial and transportation applications.
"We have developed a low-voltage, single-catalyst water splitter that continuously generates hydrogen and oxygen for more than 200 hours, an exciting world-record performance," said study co-author Yi Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford and of photon science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
