For the first time, Northwestern University scientists have watched water molecules in real-time as they prepared to give up electrons to form oxygen. In the crucial moment before producing oxygen, ...

As the global pursuit for sustainable energy solutions intensifies, water splitting remains a promising avenue for producing clean hydrogen fuels. But the process of splitting water into hydrogen and ...

Water splitting has long been hailed as a promising path to clean hydrogen fuel. But while the process looks elegant on paper, it turns out to be far less efficient in practice, demanding ...

Hydrogen has long been billed as the clean fuel that could power steel mills, cargo ships and even long-haul trucks without pumping carbon into the atmosphere, but splitting water to make it has ...

To explore the reason why water splitting suffers from inefficiency, the researchers applied a sophisticated new light-based technique called phase-resolved second harmonic generation. Shown here, the ...

Hydrogen (H 2) is a promising fuel for reducing greenhouse gases, especially if produced by using renewable energy to split water molecules (H 2 O). But as simple as it may seem to break water into ...

New research shows that these fields speed up water dissociation not by lowering energy costs, but by increasing molecular disorder once ions form. The reaction becomes entropy-driven—exactly the ...

A new contender is rising in the clean-energy arena — electrolysis, which produces green hydrogen by splitting water molecules. Electrolysers are attracting billions in infrastructure investment as ...

Researchers at Northwestern University recently set out to extract solid minerals from seawater for concrete reinforcement. By splitting water molecules to draw out the mineral precipitate, the team ...

The copper–chlorine (Cu–Cl) thermochemical cycle represents a promising pathway for sustainable hydrogen generation by utilising high‐temperature heat sources to drive endothermic reactions that split ...

Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo, led by Assistant Professor Megumi Okazaki, have identified key factors affecting water-splitting efficiency in a study published in Chem Catalysis. The ...