Abstracts Book - IMRC 2018

• SC3-O009 Invited Talk
ADDRESSING FUNDAMENTAL MATERIALS CHALLENGES IN
DIRECT SOLAR WATER SPLITTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR
SUSTAINABLE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
Eric Miller 1 , Katie Randolph 1 , David Peterson 1 , James Vickers 2 , Neha Rustagi 1 , Maxim
Lyubovsky 3 , Kim Cierpik Gold 4 , Stephanie Byham 5
1
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Fuel Cell
Technologies Office, United States. 2 American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Fuel Cell Technologies Office, United States. 3 Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Fuel Cell
Technologies Office, United States. 4 Allegheny Science and Technology, Fuel Cell Technologies
Office, United States. 5 The Building People, Fuel Cell Technologies Office, United States.
The emergence of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies offers the nation
important and potentially transformative cross-sectoral economic,
environmental and energy security benefits that are being explored through the
U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) H2@scale initiative. Through H2@Scale, DOE
is partnering with more than twenty companies as well as America’s national
laboratories to realize hydrogen as a flexible, scalable, nationwide energy
carrier, complementing the electric grid in service of major energy, industry and
transportation sectors. In recent years, early-stage research and development
supported by DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office has contributed substantially
to the advancement of important hydrogen and fuel cell technologies which are
critical to the H2@Scale vision. One example has been the research efforts to
develop multiple pathways for large-scale hydrogen production from diverse
domestic resources through the HydroGEN Consortium on Advanced Water
Splitting Materials, which is part of the DOE Energy Materials Network.
HydroGEN research efforts leverage state-of-the-art methods in theory,
computation, experimentation, analysis, and data informatics in the discovery
and development of efficient and durable materials for hydrogen production
through innovative electrochemical, solar-thermochemical and solarphotoelectrochemical
pathways. Recent HydroGEN activities and progress in
areas of direct solar water splitting will be described and discussed in the
context of H2@Scale.
Keywords: hydrogen, photoelectrochemical, solar-thermochemical
Presenting authors email: eric.miller@ee.doe.gov