Nano structured oxyhalide catalyst delivers record solar fuel efficiency

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 01, 2025

In a major stride for solar-driven fuel generation, scientists from the Institute of Science Tokyo have engineered a nanoscale, porous photocatalyst that dramatically boosts hydrogen production from water and carbon dioxide conversion into formic acid using sunlight. The novel material-Pb2Ti2O5.4F1.2 (PTOF)-demonstrated approximately 60 times the activity of previously reported oxyhalide photoca