Porous transparent conducting oxides for efficient solar fuel production (transferred to USyd)

This project aims to develop highly porous, transparent and electrically conducting networks of oxide nanoparticles for artificial photosynthesis applications. This will be accomplished by the multi-scale engineering of their chemical, morphological, optical, and electrical properties using innovative scalable approaches. The intended outcome is the demonstration of efficient conversion of sunlight into zero-carbon solar fuels such as hydrogen using inexpensive and widely available photoelectrocatalysts, which in the absence of these porous transparent conducting scaffolds, would be limited in performance by their poor conductivity. Broad benefits are anticipated in renewable energy generation and storage, and optoelectronic devices.