Water-splitting photocatalyst that is abundant and inexpensive with low toxicity discovered
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 10:50
in Physics & Chemistry
As a part of JST's problem-solving oriented basic research program, the research group led by the principal researcher Hideki Abe and the senior researcher Naoto Umezawa at the NIMS's Environmental Remediation Materials Unit discovered a new photocatalyst, Sn3O4, which facilitates the production of hydrogen fuel out of water using sunlight as an energy source.