Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments
Replacing fossil fuels with energy sources and carriers that are sustainable, environmentally benign, and affordable is amongst the most pressing challenges for future socio-economic development. To that goal, hydrogen is presumed to be the most promising energy carrier. Electrocatalytic water split...
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| author | Chatenet, Marian Pollet, Bruno G. Dekel, Dario R. Dionigi, Fabio Deseure, Jonathan Millet, Pierre Braatz, Richard D. Bazant, Martin Z. Eikerling, Michael Staffell, Iain Balcombe, Paul Shao-Horn, Yang Schäfer, Helmut |
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| description | Replacing fossil fuels with energy sources and carriers that are sustainable, environmentally benign, and affordable is amongst the most pressing challenges for future socio-economic development. To that goal, hydrogen is presumed to be the most promising energy carrier. Electrocatalytic water splitting, if driven by green electricity, would provide hydrogen with minimal CO2 footprint. The viability of water electrolysis still hinges on the availability of durable earth-abundant electrocatalyst materials and the overall process efficiency. This review spans from the fundamentals of electrocatalytically initiated water splitting to the very latest scientific findings from university and institutional research, also covering specifications and special features of the current industrial processes and those processes currently being tested in large-scale applications. Recently developed strategies are described for the optimisation and discovery of active and durable materials for electrodes that ever-increasingly harness first-principles calculations and machine learning. In addition, a technoeconomic analysis of water electrolysis is included that allows an assessment of the extent to which a large-scale implementation of water splitting can help to combat climate change. This review article is intended to cross-pollinate and strengthen efforts from fundamental understanding to technical implementation and to improve the ‘junctions’ between the field's physical chemists, materials scientists and engineers, as well as stimulate much-needed exchange among these groups on challenges encountered in the different domains. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1542912025-02-05T21:48:12Z Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments Chatenet, Marian Pollet, Bruno G. Dekel, Dario R. Dionigi, Fabio Deseure, Jonathan Millet, Pierre Braatz, Richard D. Bazant, Martin Z. Eikerling, Michael Staffell, Iain Balcombe, Paul Shao-Horn, Yang Schäfer, Helmut Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Replacing fossil fuels with energy sources and carriers that are sustainable, environmentally benign, and affordable is amongst the most pressing challenges for future socio-economic development. To that goal, hydrogen is presumed to be the most promising energy carrier. Electrocatalytic water splitting, if driven by green electricity, would provide hydrogen with minimal CO2 footprint. The viability of water electrolysis still hinges on the availability of durable earth-abundant electrocatalyst materials and the overall process efficiency. This review spans from the fundamentals of electrocatalytically initiated water splitting to the very latest scientific findings from university and institutional research, also covering specifications and special features of the current industrial processes and those processes currently being tested in large-scale applications. Recently developed strategies are described for the optimisation and discovery of active and durable materials for electrodes that ever-increasingly harness first-principles calculations and machine learning. In addition, a technoeconomic analysis of water electrolysis is included that allows an assessment of the extent to which a large-scale implementation of water splitting can help to combat climate change. This review article is intended to cross-pollinate and strengthen efforts from fundamental understanding to technical implementation and to improve the ‘junctions’ between the field's physical chemists, materials scientists and engineers, as well as stimulate much-needed exchange among these groups on challenges encountered in the different domains. 2024-04-25T20:23:38Z 2024-04-25T20:23:38Z 2022 2024-04-25T20:13:05Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0306-0012 1460-4744 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154291 Chem. Soc. Rev., 2022,51, 4583-4762. en 10.1039/d0cs01079k Chemical Society Reviews Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Royal Society of Chemistry Royal Society of Chemistry |
| spellingShingle | Chatenet, Marian Pollet, Bruno G. Dekel, Dario R. Dionigi, Fabio Deseure, Jonathan Millet, Pierre Braatz, Richard D. Bazant, Martin Z. Eikerling, Michael Staffell, Iain Balcombe, Paul Shao-Horn, Yang Schäfer, Helmut Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments |
| title | Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments |
| title_full | Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments |
| title_fullStr | Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments |
| title_short | Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments |
| title_sort | water electrolysis from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154291 |
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