- 著者
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荒川 裕則
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 水素エネルギー協会
- 雑誌
- 水素エネルギーシステム (ISSN:13416995)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.24, no.1, pp.81-88, 1999 (Released:2022-07-21)
Hydrogen production from water using inexhaustible solar light, which is considered to be an artificial photosynthesis reaction, is one of dream technologies for human beings. Here, recent progress in photocatalytic water splitting was introduced. First, it was shown that Na2CO3 addition method was very useful to produce H2 and O2 from water stoichiometrically using simple semiconductor photocatalysts such as Pt/TiO2. Using this method, solar hydrogen production was demonstrated for the first time. Then, a two-step water splitting system, which was similar to Z-scheme of photo-synthesis, was newly proposed in order to utilize visible light.