Carbon nanotubes route to hydrogen

摘要

A technology developed at Rutgers University in the US based on carbon nanotubes promises commercially viable hydrogen production from water. The Rutgers technology uses a novel catalyst to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen that works almost as well as expensive platinum and is claimed to be far more efficient than other less-expensive catalysts investigated to date. "Hydrogen has long been expected to play a vital role in our future energy landscapes by mitigating, if not completely eliminating, our reliance on fossil fuels," said Teddy Asefa, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers.