Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have created a new type of paint that absorbs water from the air and splits it to generate hydrogen.
Dubbed ‘solar paint’, the material contains synthetic molybdenum-sulphide, a newly developed compound that removes moisture from the surrounding air in a similar way to silica gel. As well as collecting the water, the material also acts as a semiconductor, photo-catalysing the H2O atoms to split into hydrogen and oxygen.
Read the complete article published in The Engineer, 19 June 2017
