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‘Solar’ paint harvests hydrogen from water vapour

June 20, 2017
by Stephen Kimbell
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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

About the Author
Stephen Kimbell is a specialist in business strategy and deal doing. He is an investor, an entrepreneur and an experienced non-executive director. During his many years in the corporate finance world, as a lawyer, a company director and as an academic, Stephen has helped numerous companies achieve success.
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