Well, if plants had indium gallium nitride nanostructures and harnessed the power of 160 suns.
The new process is called artificial photosynthesis
, and while it's not a new idea, the new experiment shows a huge improvement in efficiency—even greater than natural photosynthesis. The process involves semiconductor catalysts, and requires heat for making the process faster and preventing the re-bonding of oxygen and hydrogen back together. But the heat required is too much for current semiconductors to handle.
compared to some semiconductors only working at low light intensity," Peng Zhou said, who is a University of Michigan computer and electrical engineering research fellow and first author of this study. The team also utilized"self-healing" semiconductor technology and tested the process on a light source 160 times more powerful than sunlight on earth.
In that real world, outdoor test, this artificial photosynthesis was able to achieve a 6.1 percent efficiency in its conversion of water into hydrogen, which is nearly 10 times more efficient than solar water-splitting experiments. When they took the experiment indoors it increased its efficiency to 9 percent. The next step is to further improve its efficiency and increase the purity of the hydrogen.
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