Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Efficient solar hydrogen generation in microgravity environment

  • Katharina Brinkert,
  • Matthias H. Richter,
  • Ömer Akay,
  • Janine Liedtke,
  • Michael Giersig,
  • Katherine T. Fountaine,
  • Hans-Joachim Lewerenz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04844-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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While renewable energy production is a terrestrial concern, far less attention is devoted to solar-to-fuel conversion for long-term space missions. Here, the authors explore photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation in microgravity and overcome microgravity’s limitations by electrode nanostructuring.