Reply #3: Novel Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight [View All]

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830151229.htm

"Using state-of-the-art theoretical computations, the University of Kentucky-University of Louisville team demonstrated that an alloy formed by a 2 percent substitution of antimony (Sb) in gallium nitride (GaN) has the right electrical properties to enable solar light energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, a process known as photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. When the alloy is immersed in water and exposed to sunlight, the chemical bond between the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in water is broken. The hydrogen can then be collected."

It seems that they have done a computer simulation. So far the alloy has not been produced, nor has any hydrogen been generated.