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Direct Solar Hydrogen Generation at 20% Efficiency Using Low‐Cost Materials

Direct Solar Hydrogen Generation at 20% Efficiency Using Low‐Cost Materials While direct solar‐driven water splitting has been investigated as an important technology for low‐cost hydrogen production, the systems demonstrated so far either required expensive materials or presented low solar‐to‐hydrogen (STH) conversion efficiencies, both of which increase the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH). Here, a low‐cost material system is demonstrated, consisting of perovskite/Si tandem semiconductors and Ni‐based earth‐abundant catalysts for direct solar hydrogen generation. NiMo‐based hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst is reported, which has innovative “flower‐stem” morphology with enhanced reaction sites and presents very low reaction overpotential of 6 mV at 10 mA cm−2. A perovskite solar cell with an unprecedented high open circuit voltage (Voc) of 1.271 V is developed, which is enabled by an optimized perovskite composition and an improved surface passivation. When the NiMo hydrogen evolution catalyst is wire‐connected with an optimally designed NiFe‐based oxygen evolution catalyst and a high‐performance perovskite‐Si tandem cell, the resulting integrated water splitting cell achieves a record 20% STH efficiency. Detailed analysis of the integrated system reveals that STH efficiencies of 25% can be achieved with realistic improvements in the perovskite cell and an LCOH below ≈$3 kg−1 is feasible. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Advanced Energy Materials Wiley

Direct Solar Hydrogen Generation at 20% Efficiency Using Low‐Cost Materials

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1614-6832
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10.1002/aenm.202101053
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Abstract

While direct solar‐driven water splitting has been investigated as an important technology for low‐cost hydrogen production, the systems demonstrated so far either required expensive materials or presented low solar‐to‐hydrogen (STH) conversion efficiencies, both of which increase the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH). Here, a low‐cost material system is demonstrated, consisting of perovskite/Si tandem semiconductors and Ni‐based earth‐abundant catalysts for direct solar hydrogen generation. NiMo‐based hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst is reported, which has innovative “flower‐stem” morphology with enhanced reaction sites and presents very low reaction overpotential of 6 mV at 10 mA cm−2. A perovskite solar cell with an unprecedented high open circuit voltage (Voc) of 1.271 V is developed, which is enabled by an optimized perovskite composition and an improved surface passivation. When the NiMo hydrogen evolution catalyst is wire‐connected with an optimally designed NiFe‐based oxygen evolution catalyst and a high‐performance perovskite‐Si tandem cell, the resulting integrated water splitting cell achieves a record 20% STH efficiency. Detailed analysis of the integrated system reveals that STH efficiencies of 25% can be achieved with realistic improvements in the perovskite cell and an LCOH below ≈$3 kg−1 is feasible.

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Advanced Energy Materials – Wiley

Published: Sep 1, 2021

Keywords: Ni‐based electrocatalysts

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