[font face=Serif][font size=5]Solar paint offers endless energy from water vapour[/font]

14 Jun 2017

[font size=4]Researchers have developed a solar paint that can absorb water vapour and split it to generate hydrogen – the cleanest source of energy.[/font]

[font size=3]The paint contains a newly developed compound that acts like silica gel, which is used in sachets to absorb moisture and keep food, medicines and electronics fresh and dry.

But unlike silica gel, the new material, synthetic molybdenum-sulphide, also acts as a semi-conductor and catalyses the splitting of water atoms into hydrogen and oxygen.

RMIT lead researcher Dr Torben Daeneke said: “We found that mixing the compound with titanium oxide particles leads to a sunlight-absorbing paint that produces hydrogen fuel from solar energy and moist air.



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