Single-catalyst water splitter developed by Professor Yi Cui and a team of Stanford scientists

Professor Yi Cui, Professor in the Department of Material Sciences and Courtesy Faculty in the Department of Chemistry, and a team of Stanford scientists have developed a cheap and efficient way to extract clean-burning hydrogen fuel from water 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost water splitter that uses a single catalyst to produce both hydrogen and oxygen gas 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The device, described in a study published June 23 in Nature Communications, could provide a renewable source of clean-burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry.