Podcast: Super-efficient catalyst boosts hopes for hydrogen fuel

Podcast: Super-efficient catalyst boosts hopes for hydrogen fuel

Podcast: Hydrogen from water and light After decades of research, scientists have managed to separate hydrogen from water with near perfect efficiency using a light-activated catalyst. Chemist Kazunari Domen and his colleagues fine-tuned the prototype system so that almost no energy from the absorbed photons is wasted — throwing open the door to producing clean, green hydrogen fuel from renewable solar energy. “I myself was actually surprised,” laughs Domen in the Nature Podcast. Nature Podcast | 20 min listen Go deeper with an analysis by materials scientist Simone Pokrant in the Nature News & Views article.Reference: Nature paper Subscribe to the Nature Podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify.