Phys.org  May 31, 2022 Photocatalytic water splitting concept is not yet used industrially. An international team of researchers (Austria, Germany, Japan) has found a new combination of molecular and solid-state catalysts to transform water into O2 molecules, and hydrogen ions into H2 molecules. They anchored clusters made up of cobalt, tungsten and oxygen for oxidizing oxygen, and clusters of sulfur and molybdenum for creating hydrogen molecules on a surface of light-absorbing support structures such as titanium oxide. The energy of the absorbed light led to the creation of free-moving electrons and free-moving positive charges in the titanium oxide. These charges […]