A group of scientists discover how to generate hydrogen fuel from water and sunlightviernes, 07 diciembre 2018 A group of scientists from various universities have created a new organic material that reacts to solar radiation by generating hydrogen from water.A group of scientists from the universities of Liverpool, London College and the East China Science and Technology Institute have managed to synthesize a new organic material that can convert water into hydrogen fuel using sunlight. The photocatalytic production of hydrogen could become an abundant source of energy for which only two elements as abundant on Earth would be needed, such as water and solar radiation.The organic catalyst necessary to carry out the process of division of atoms by which hydrogen is separated from oxygen can be built from cheap and abundant elements, such as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur. The team led by scientists at the University of Liverpool used a combination of empirical experiments and computational calculations of molecular structures to discover the composition of this organic photocatalyst that could be revolutionary and accelerate the use of hydrogen as an energy vector.
