Paint Makes Hydrogen Fuel from H20 & Sunlight

Distinguished Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh and Dr Torben Daeneke with a pot of solar paint and a piece of glass with the paint applied. Photo credit: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.

Leave it to the innovative and out-the-box creative Australians. They’ve done it again by creating a paint that generates hydrogen fuel from water vapor and sunlight.

I want some!!

Here’s the story…

“Researchers have developed a solar paint that can absorb water vapour and split it to generate hydrogen – the cleanest source of energy."

“The paint contains a newly developed compound that acts like silica gel, which is used in sachets to absorb moisture and keep food, medicines and electronics fresh and dry."

“But unlike silica gel, the new material, synthetic molybdenum-sulphide, also acts as a semi-conductor and catalyses the splitting of water atoms into hydrogen and oxygen."

“Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (Melbourne, Australia) lead researcher Dr Torben Daeneke said: “We found that mixing the compound with titanium oxide particles leads to a sunlight-absorbing paint that produces hydrogen fuel from solar energy and moist air."

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Solar paint offers endless energy from water vapour, David Glanz, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, 14 Jun 2017.

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