A practical method to use sunlight to generate storable chemical energy could dramatically change the landscape of global energy generation. One of the fundamental requirements of such an “artificial photosynthesis” scheme is a light capture and conversion approach capable of generating the required chemical potentials (e.g. >1.23 V for splitting water into and ). An approach based on inorganic light absorbers coupled directly to oxidation and reduction catalysts is being developed in the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP). P-type III-V semiconductors with a high surface area can be used as high current density photocathodes. The longevity under operation of these photocathodes can be improved by the use of conformal metal oxides deposited by atomic layer deposition.
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10 December 2013
SOLAR CHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE: SolChES
23–28 July 2012
Sendai, Japan
Research Article|
December 10 2013
Solar fuels production by artificial photosynthesis
Joel W. Ager;
Joel W. Ager
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA,
USA
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Min-Hyung Lee;
Min-Hyung Lee
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA and Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyung Hee University,
Republic of Korea
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Ali Javey
Ali Javey
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720,
USA
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AIP Conf. Proc. 1568, 3–6 (2013)
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Joel W. Ager, Min-Hyung Lee, Ali Javey; Solar fuels production by artificial photosynthesis. AIP Conf. Proc. 10 December 2013; 1568 (1): 3–6. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4848078
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