Approaching the commercial threshold of solar water splitting toward hydrogen by III-nitrides nanowires

doi:10.1007/s11708-023-0870-z

Front. Energy

2024, Vol. 18

Issue (1) : 122-124 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-023-0870-z

Approaching the commercial threshold of solar water splitting toward hydrogen by III-nitrides nanowires

Baowen ZHOU¹(

), Shuhui SUN²(

)

¹. Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy, Shanghai 200240, China
². Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)-Center Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Varennes, Quebec J3X 1P7, Canada

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Baowen ZHOU,Shuhui SUN. Approaching the commercial threshold of solar water splitting toward hydrogen by III-nitrides nanowires[J]. Front. Energy, 2024, 18(1): 122-124.

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Fig.1 Infrared light-promoted photocatalytic overall water splitting into hydrogen over Rh/Cr₂O₃/Co₃O₄-loaded InGaN/GaN nanowires photocatalyst.

Fig.2 Outdoor test of photocatalytic overall water splitting.

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