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Nanocrystals ramp up hydrogen production

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Adding nanocrystals can make the light-driven production of hydrogen more robust and cost-effective, a team at the University of Rochester discovered. The work advances what is sometimes considered the “Holy Grail” of energy science: efficiently using sunlight to provide clean, carbon-free energy for anything that requires electricity. Because it gives off no greenhouse emissions and can easily be converted into electrical energy, hydrogen is seen as an attractive fuel source for the future. But compounds essential to the process are very short-lived, and the catalysts used...Read full article

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    Published: January 2013
    Glossary
    chromophore
    A naturally occurring pigment in tissue that may selectively absorb certain wavelengths and can be used to aid in targeting the beam in laser surgery.
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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