Kimberly M. Papadantonakis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the fundamentals of water splitting and describe practices which distinguish commercial water-electrolysis systems from simple laboratory-scale demonstrations, as well as a comparison between the two types of water-splitting systems.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a reactively sputtered NiOx layer provides a transparent, antireflective, conductive, chemically stable, inherently catalytic coating that stabilizes many efficient and technologically important semiconducting photoanodes under viable system operating conditions, thereby allowing the use of these materials in an integrated system for the sustainable, direct production of fuels from sunlight.

TL;DR: A taxonomy and nomenclature for solar fuels generators based on the source of the asymmetry that separates photogenerated electrons and holes was developed in this article, and three basic device types have been identified: photovoltaic cells, photoelectrochemical cells, and particulate/molecular photocatalysts.

TL;DR: In this article, a nickel-manganese antimonate electrocatalyst with a rutile-type crystal structure was reported to catalyze the oxidation of water to O2(g) at a rate corresponding to 10 mA cm−2 of current density when operated in contact with 1.0 M sulfuric acid.

TL;DR: In this article, a planar n-Si(100) photoanodes with a thin ∼50 nm film of cobalt oxide fabricated using atomic-layer deposition (ALD) was used for photovoltaic-biased solar fuels generators.