On-demand hydrogen generation using nanosilicon: Splitting water without light, heat, or electricity

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 451-456

  Erogbogbo, Folarin ^a,b   Lin, Tao ^b,c   Tucciarone, Phillip M ^b   Lajoie, Krystal M ^b   Lai, Larry ^a   Patki, Gauri D ^b   Prasad, Paras N ^a,d   Swihart, Mark T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

fuel cell; hydrogen generation; Silicon; water splitting

Indexed keywords

BULK SILICON; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; EXPECTED EFFECTS; HYDROGEN GENERATIONS; ISOTROPIC ETCHING; NANO SCALE; NANO-SILICON; NANO-SIZE; ON-DEMAND HYDROGEN; PRODUCTION RATES; SPLITTING WATERS; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; WATER SPLITTING;

FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

SILICON;

HYDROGEN; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

HYDROGEN; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873670189     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl304680w     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Khaselev, O.; Turner, J. A. Science 1998, 280 (5362) 425-427
2. Schlapbach, L.; Zuttel, A. Nature 2001, 414 (6861) 353-358
3. Zou, Z.; Ye, J.; Sayama, K.; Arakawa, H. Nature 2001, 414 (6864) 625-627
4. Khan, S. U. M.; Al-Shahry, M.; Ingler, W. B. Science 2002, 297 (5590) 2243-2245
5. Maeda, K.; Teramura, K.; Lu, D. L.; Takata, T.; Saito, N.; Inoue, Y.; Domen, K. Nature 2006, 440 (7082) 295-295
6. Wang, X. C.; Maeda, K.; Thomas, A.; Takanabe, K.; Xin, G.; Carlsson, J. M.; Domen, K.; Antonietti, M. Nat. Mater. 2009, 8 (1) 76-80
7. Weigele, P.; Noren, C. J. Nat Nanotechnol 2010, 5 (5) 313-314
8. Reece, S. Y.; Hamel, J. A.; Sung, K.; Jarvi, T. D.; Esswein, A. J.; Pijpers, J. J. H.; Nocera, D. G. Science 2011, 334 (6056) 645-648
9. Cobo, S.; Heidkamp, J.; Jacques, P.-A.; Fize, J.; Fourmond, V.; Guetaz, L.; Jousselme, B.; Ivanova, V.; Dau, H.; Palacin, S.; Fontecave, M.; Artero, V. Nat. Mater. 2012, 11 (9) 802-807
10. Tachibana, Y.; Vayssieres, L.; Durrant, J. R. Nat Photonics 2012, 6 (8) 511-518
11. Auner, N. E-conomics Research Notes, Deutsche Bank Research, 2004, http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:dbrrns:11e.
12. Litvinenko, S.; Alekseev, S.; Lysenko, V.; Venturello, A.; Geobaldo, F.; Gulina, L.; Kuznetsov, G.; Tolstoy, V.; Skryshevsky, V.; Garrone, E.; Barbier, D. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2010, 35 (13) 6773-6778
13. Goller, B.; Kovalev, D.; Sreseli, O. Nanotechnology 2011, 22, 30
14. Kale, P.; Gangal, A. C.; Edla, R.; Sharma, P. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2012, 37 (4) 3741-3747
15. Bahruji, H.; Bowker, M.; Davies, P. R. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2009, 34 (20) 8504-8510
16. Zhan, C. Y.; Chu, P. K.; Ren, D.; Xin, Y. C.; Huo, K. F.; Zou, Y.; Huang, N. K. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2011, 36 (7) 4513-4517
17. Bunker, C. E.; Smith, M. J. J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21 (33) 12173-12180
18. Ding, Z. F.; Quinn, B. M.; Haram, S. K.; Pell, L. E.; Korgel, B. A.; Bard, A. J. Science 2002, 296 (5571) 1293-1297
19. de Boer, W. D. A. M.; Timmerman, D.; Dohnalova, K.; Yassievich, I. N.; Zhang, H.; Buma, W. J.; Gregorkiewicz, T. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2010, 5 (12) 878-884
20. Chrobak, D.; Tymiak, N.; Beaber, A.; Ugurlu, O.; Gerberich, W. W.; Nowak, R. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2011, 6 (8) 480-484
21. Mill, T.; Hirschon, A.; Coggiola, M.; Queen, B. M. Proc. 2002 U.S. DOE Hydrogen Program Rev. 2002, CP-610-32405
22. Seidel, H.; Csepregi, L.; Heuberger, A.; Baumgartel, H. J. Electrochem. Soc. 1990, 137 (11) 3612-3626
23. Ma, X. F.; Zachariah, M. R. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2010, 35 (6) 2268-2277