Philipp Buday (l.) and Chizuru Kasahara during an experiment on light-driven hydrogen production. Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
Philipp Buday (l.) and Chizuru Kasahara during an experiment on light-driven hydrogen production. Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena) - A research team from Friedrich Schiller University Jena has developed a molecular photosystem inspired by nature that generates hydrogen under visible light irradiation. In contrast to other existing systems of this type, it functions without the use of precious or heavy metals. Low-cost and environmentally friendly. "What is special about our system is that it's a relatively small and compact metal complex, which, however, doesn't require any expensive or toxic metals, such as platinum or cadmium," explains Prof. Wolfgang Weigand of Jena University's Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry. "Here, the volume of hydrogen generation is about 10 times higher than in similar systems." The significance of this achievement is evidenced by the fact that the results have been published as a "Very Important Paper" in the internationally renowned journal "Angewandte Chemie".
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