Solar fuels articles within Nature

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  24 April 2024 | Open Access

  High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu₂O photoelectrodes

  A study introduces a novel method to grow single-crystal Cu₂O thin films with selected crystal orientations, highlighting enhanced bulk carrier mobility and carrier diffusion length along the [111] direction that yields Cu₂O photocathodes with improved performance.

  • Linfeng Pan
  • , Linjie Dai
  •  & Samuel D. Stranks

• Article | 08 February 2023

  Water splitting with silicon p–i–n superlattices suspended in solution

  The simplicity of particle suspension reactors and the precise synthetic control afforded by silicon nanowire growth are used to develop a system that can produce hydrogen fuel by splitting water with sunlight.

  • Taylor S. Teitsworth
  • , David J. Hill
  •  & James F. Cahoon

• Article | 12 October 2022

  Spatiotemporal imaging of charge transfer in photocatalyst particles

  Photovoltage measurements on cuprous oxide photocatalyst particles are used to spatiotemporally track the charge transfer processes on the femtosecond to second timescale at the single-particle level.

  • Ruotian Chen
  • , Zefeng Ren
  •  & Can Li

• Article | 03 November 2021

  Drop-in fuels from sunlight and air

  Carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels can be produced using sunlight and air via a thermochemical solar fuel production chain, thus representing a pathway towards the long-term decarbonization of the aviation sector.

  • Remo Schäppi
  • , David Rutz
  •  & Aldo Steinfeld

• Article | 25 August 2021

  Photocatalytic solar hydrogen production from water on a 100-m² scale

  Carbon-neutral hydrogen can be produced through photocatalytic water splitting, as demonstrated here with a 100-m² array of panel reactors that reaches a maximum conversion efficiency of 0.76%.

  • Hiroshi Nishiyama
  • , Taro Yamada
  •  & Kazunari Domen