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Rare metal helps to turn sunlight into fuel, day and night

A hydrogen fueling pump lit at night at a TrueZero station in Mill Valley, California, U.S.

A fuel pump in California dispenses not petrol, but hydrogen — which could now be produced in the dark, despite depending on solar power, thanks to a newly devised molecule. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty

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Nature 602, 187 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00232-1

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  • Correction 03 February 2022: An earlier version named the wrong journal as the publisher of this research.

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  1. Amthor, S. et al. Nature Chem. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-021-00850-8 (2022).

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