Pathways to electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies

Shane Ardo; David Fernandez Rivas; Miguel A. Modestino; Verena Schulze Greiving; Fatwa F. Abdi; Esther Alarcon Llado; Vincent Artero; Katherine Ayers; Corsin Battaglia; Jan-Philipp Becker; Dmytro Bederak; Alan Berger; Francesco Buda; Enrico Chinello; Bernard Dam; Valerio Di Palma; Tomas Edvinsson; Katsushi Fujii; Han Gardeniers; Hans Geerlings; S. Mohammad Hashemi; Sophia Haussener; Frances Houle; Jurriaan Huskens; Brian D. James; Kornelia Konrad; Akihiko Kudo; Pramod Patil Kunturu; Detlef Lohse; Bastian Mei; Eric L. Miller; Gary F. Moore; Jiri Muller; Katherine L. Orchard; Timothy E. Rosser; Fadl H. Saadi; Jan-Willem Schüttauf; Brian Seger; Stafford W. Sheehan; Wilson A. Smith; Joshua Spurgeon; Maureen H. Tang; Roel Van De Krol; Peter C. K. Vesborg; Pieter Westerik

doi:10.1039/c7ee03639f

Pathways to electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies

Shane Ardo^*
, David Fernandez Rivas
, Miguel A. Modestino
, Verena Schulze Greiving
, Fatwa F. Abdi
, Esther Alarcon Llado
, Vincent Artero
, Katherine Ayers
, Corsin Battaglia
, Jan-Philipp Becker
, Dmytro Bederak
, Alan Berger
, Francesco Buda
, Enrico Chinello
, Bernard Dam
, Valerio Di Palma
, Tomas Edvinsson
, Katsushi Fujii
, Han Gardeniers
, Hans Geerlings

S. Mohammad Hashemi, Sophia Haussener, Frances Houle, Jurriaan Huskens, Brian D. James, Kornelia Konrad, Akihiko Kudo, Pramod Patil Kunturu, Detlef Lohse, Bastian Mei, Eric L. Miller, Gary F. Moore, Jiri Muller, Katherine L. Orchard, Timothy E. Rosser, Fadl H. Saadi, Jan-Willem Schüttauf, Brian Seger, Stafford W. Sheehan, Wilson A. Smith, Joshua Spurgeon, Maureen H. Tang, Roel Van De Krol, Peter C. K. Vesborg, Pieter Westerik

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Solar-powered electrochemical production of hydrogen through water electrolysis is an active and important research endeavor. However, technologies and roadmaps for implementation of this process do not exist. In this perspective paper, we describe potential pathways for solar-hydrogen technologies into the marketplace in the form of photoelectrochemical or photovoltaic-driven electrolysis devices and systems. We detail technical approaches for device and system architectures, economic drivers, societal perceptions, political impacts, technological challenges, and research opportunities. Implementation scenarios are broken down into short-term and long-term markets, and a specific technology roadmap is defined. In the short term, the only plausible economical option will be photovoltaic-driven electrolysis systems for niche applications. In the long term, electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies could be deployed more broadly in energy markets but will require advances in the technology, significant cost reductions, and/or policy changes. Ultimately, a transition to a society that significantly relies on solar-hydrogen technologies will benefit from continued creativity and influence from the scientific community. © 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2768-2783
Journal	Energy and Environmental Science
Volume	11
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ee03639f
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2018
Externally published	Yes

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SA thanks the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Fuel Cell Technologies Incubator Program under Award No. DE-EE0006963 for support. DFR acknowledges support by The Netherlands Centre for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC), an NWO Gravitation programme funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the government of The Netherlands. MAM acknowledges the support of New York University, Tandon School of Engineering through his startup grant. VSG and KK acknowledge support by the Dutch NanoNextNL programme funded by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Part of the material on photoelectrochemical systems presented in the workshop is based upon work performed by the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, supported through the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Award Number DE-SC0004993, which provides support for FH. VA thanks the European Commission's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 306398 (FP7-IDEAS-ERS, Project PhotocatH2ode) and Labex Program (ArCANE, ANR-11-LABX-0003-01). TR acknowledges the UK Solar Fuels Network for his travel bursary. The contributions of DFR and HG were carried out within the research programme of BioSolar Cells, co-financed by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. PW and HG acknowledge the support by the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM, Project No. 13CO12-1), which is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). SG is funded through research grant number 9455 from the VILLUM FONDEN. SMHH thanks Nano-Tera Initiative (Grant no. 20NA21-145936) for financial support. MHT acknowledges NSF-CBET-1602886. FB acknowledges financial support from the research programme of BioSolar Cells, co-financed by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (project C4.E3). DB acknowledges the financial support of Dieptestrategie program from Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. SH acknowledges support by the Swiss National Science Foundation through the Starting Grant SCOUTS (grant #155876).

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Ardo, S., Fernandez Rivas, D., Modestino, M. A., Schulze Greiving, V., Abdi, F. F., Alarcon Llado, E., Artero, V., Ayers, K., Battaglia, C., Becker, J.-P., Bederak, D., Berger, A., Buda, F., Chinello, E., Dam, B., Di Palma, V., Edvinsson, T., Fujii, K., Gardeniers, H., ... Westerik, P. (2018). Pathways to electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies. Energy and Environmental Science, 11(10), 2768-2783. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ee03639f

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