article_snippet.sent: Researchers at the University of Bath and Yale University uses a newly designed molecular catalyst to split water in an electrolyser and create clean and storable hydrogen fuel.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Ulrich Hintermair told MailOnline that the main problem with the production of hydrogen through a process known as water electrolysis was the waste oxygen the production of hydrogen produces.
article_snippet.sent: Water splitting is an electro-chemical process in which two electrodes generate oxygen and hydrogen from water, respectively.
article_snippet.sent: The energy required to drive an electro-chemical process in which two electrodes generate oxygen and hydrogen from water, respectively gets locked up in hydrogen as the fuel with oxygen as a by-product.
article_snippet.sent: The new patented catalyst is more efficient at performing the crucial oxidation half of the reaction than any other existing material, minimising energy losses in the electricity-to-hydrogen conversion process.
article_snippet.sent: It can be directly applied to various electrode surfaces in a straightforward and highly economical manner.
article_snippet.sent: the electricity-to-hydrogen conversion process splits water into hydrogen and oxygen but, while the first part can be done quite efficiently, the latter was more difficult and lots of energy is lost.
article_snippet.sent: Oxygen catalyst, placed on an electrode used in the production of hydrogen, is much more efficient - and
article_snippet.sent: So We need to convert it into a chemical fuel, and for that water electrolysis is a key technology because we can take any renewable technology, connect it to an electrolyster and store it in hydrogen, which is a fantastic fuel.
article_snippet.sent: On this right in this image is the catalyst being used in the water electrolysis process.
article_snippet.sent: This new molecular catalyst will hopefully play a large role in helping create hydrogen from renewable energy sources such as solar power. '
article_snippet.sent: Professor Matthew Davidson, head of the department of chemistry, added: 'Splitting water into water constituent parts is deceptively simple chemistry, but doing water in a sustainable way is one of the holy grails of chemistry because it is the key step in the goal of artificial photosynthesis. '
highlights_snippet.sent: A new molecular catalyst splits water and makes storable energy .
  