Advanced Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Production

Global fuel consumption and harmful gaseous emissions diverted energy sources to alternative means. Solar water splitting amidst other solar conversion methods is the cleanest and most efficient means of hydrogen production. Modern scientific technologies have delved into adopting nanomaterials of high efficiency to treat environmental pollution and produce hydrogen. Due to their outstanding properties, hydrogen has been discussed to be generated through electrochemical, photocatalytic, or electrophotocatalytic processes. The chapter reviews the diverse means of producing hydrogen using advanced nanomaterials like carbon nanomaterials, solid inorganic-organic hybrids, metallic oxides/sulfides, quantum dots, composite heterostructures, and microbial electrolytic cells. The electrochemistry studies, syntheses processes, excellent performance, high potentials, high efficiencies, and recent progress of hydrogen-producing nanomaterials are discussed. This chapter showed that adopting advanced nanomaterials in generating energy increases the efficiency associated with hydrogen yield.