{"id":419401,"date":"2010-03-12T04:17:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T09:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/chemists-develop-the-most-potent-homogeneous-catalyst-for-water-oxidation\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T04:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T09:17:49","slug":"chemists-develop-the-most-potent-homogeneous-catalyst-for-water-oxidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/419401","title":{"rendered":"Chemists develop the most potent homogeneous catalyst for water oxidation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/12\/water-oxidation_GqyZl_69.jpg\" alt=\"water oxidation\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Water Oxidation catalyst generates clean hydrogen from water and sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Chemists at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/home\">Emory University<\/a> have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, which is being considered a crucial component for generating hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight. The research team states that in order to be a viable option, the water oxidation catalyst (WOC) needs to have selectivity, stability and speed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new research aims to mimic natural processes such as photosynthesis to generate clean fuel, with the long-term goal to generate hydrogen from water using only sunlight. Hydrogen becomes the fuel and its combustion produces the by-product of water, which flows back into the clean, renewable cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The three main technical challenges involved in the process are developing a light collector, a catalyst to oxidize water to oxygen and a catalyst to reduce water to hydrogen. The research team has duplicated the complex natural process of photosynthesis using a synthetic, carbon-free, homogeneous system using a cobalt-based WOC. <\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news187538062.html\">Physorg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Water Oxidation catalyst generates clean hydrogen from water and sunlight. Chemists at Emory University have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, which is being considered a crucial component for generating hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight. The research team states that in order to be a viable option, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}