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arXiv 2007.133452020-07-27physics.app-phcond-mat.mtrl-sci

Decoupled Water Splitting: From Basic Science to Application

Avigail Landman, Gideon S. Grader, Avner Rothschild

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In this review, we discuss disruptive decoupled water splitting schemes, in which the concurrent production of hydrogen and oxygen in close proximity to each other in conventional electrolysis is replaced by time- or space-separated hydrogen and oxygen production steps. We present the main decoupling strategies, including electrolytic and electrochemical chemical water splitting cycles, and the redox materials that facilitate them by mediating the ion exchange between the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. Decoupled water splitting offers increased flexibility and robustness and provides new opportunities for hydrogen production from renewable sources.

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