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Solar Hydrogen Production on Photocatalysis-Electrolysis Hybrid System Using Redox Mediator and Porous Oxide Photoelectrodes

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Solar hydrogen production from water using semiconductor photocatalysts and photoelectrodes is one of the important artificial photosynthesis technologies to achieve a sustainable hydrogen society based on solar energy conversion. It is necessary to develop new systems with practical efficiency and significantly simpler and lower cost technologies than those that combine “photovoltaic generation and electrolysis”. A photocatalysis-electrolysis hybrid system is a breakthrough system that solves almost all the disadvantages of conventional photocatalysis reactions by replacing the photocatalysis reaction on the hydrogen-production side of the Z-scheme reaction with electrolysis. Solar splitting of water using porous oxide photoanodes prepared by simple wet process is also a promising system to produce low cost hydrogen. It should be noted that maintaining the external bias at 1.23 V or less means that the apparent electrolytic efficiency can be 100 % or higher in the photoanode system that uses light energy as well as in the photocatalysis-electrolysis hybrid system .

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Sayama, K. (2016). Solar Hydrogen Production on Photocatalysis-Electrolysis Hybrid System Using Redox Mediator and Porous Oxide Photoelectrodes. In: Sugiyama, M., Fujii, K., Nakamura, S. (eds) Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25400-5_20

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