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Opening the door to mass production of green hydrogen using natural sunlight
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Opening the door to mass production of green hydrogen using natural sunlight

The ultra-large photoelectrode system developed by the research team led by Dr. Jihye Lee at the Nano Lithography Research Center. Credit: Korea Institute...

Semiconductor nanowires capture diffuse sunlight to split water and store energy as hydrogen
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Semiconductor nanowires capture diffuse sunlight to split water and store energy as hydrogen

Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c01824 A U of A engineering researcher is using sunlight and semiconductor catalysts to...

Sunlight and sugarcane waste power hydrogen production at rate four times higher than commercialization benchmark
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Sunlight and sugarcane waste power hydrogen production at rate four times higher than commercialization benchmark

Schematic diagram of PEC H2 production using the PtC/Ni/c-Si photocathode. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58000-4 A technology for hydrogen (H2) production has...

Sunlight and seawater lead to low-cost green hydrogen and clean water
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Sunlight and seawater lead to low-cost green hydrogen and clean water

A Cornell-led team built a 10 centimeter by 10 centimeter prototype device that produces carbon-free “green” hydrogen via solar-powered electrolysis of seawater, with...

Sony patents PlayStation controller that you can charge by leaving in sunlight
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Sony patents PlayStation controller that you can charge by leaving in sunlight

A recently published patent seems to show a solar powered DualSense Wireless Controller This could help address one of the controller’s biggest flaws,...

New method for harnessing sunlight offers path to stable, low-cost solar hydrogen production
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New method for harnessing sunlight offers path to stable, low-cost solar hydrogen production

Performance of the monolithic organic tandem IPV-anode with PM6:D18:L8-BO and PTQ10:GS-ISO absorber layers in a two-electrode PEC cell. Credit: Nature Energy (2025). DOI:...

New hydrovoltaic cell continuously generates electricity with little water and no sunlight
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New hydrovoltaic cell continuously generates electricity with little water and no sunlight

Structure and long-term output performance of the HHC. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54216-y A team of engineers at the Chinese Academy of...