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SOLAR WATER-SPLITTING

Coaxial wires coax energy from water

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Inexpensive, earth-abundant photoabsorbers for solar water splitting have, so far, not demonstrated notable performance. Now, voltage gained from a coaxial heterojunction coupled with nanostructure-enhanced photocurrent results in Cu2O photocathodes demonstrating benchmark water-splitting performance.

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Fig. 1: Cu2O nanowires.

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