About
Historical background
The inspiration for the SolarFuelsDB came together from multiple sources, most notably our experience in building photoelectrochemical water splitting devices. We identified the challenge of understanding, and remaining informed of, the state-of-the-art literature. In order to better harness the considerable wealth of past research, we concieved the idea of a "living" literature systemtic review, i.e. a continually updated database of reported experimental devices. Utilising our previous experience in creating freely accessible tools for the solar fuels community [1-3], and with the conceptual abstraction of photo-electrochemical device previously developed [3-4], we were perfectly placed to develop SolarFuelsDB. We look forward to the future of the SolarFuelsDB and we hope it can become a useful tool for all researchers in the field.
| [1] http://specdc.epfl.ch/ |
| [2] http://specdo.epfl.ch/ |
| [3] Holmes-Gentle, I. & Hellgardt, K. A versatile open-source analysis of the limiting efficiency of photo electrochemical water-splitting. Sci. Rep. 8, (2018). |
| [4] Holmes-Gentle, I., Alhersh, F., Bedoya-Lora, F. & Hellgardt, K.. Photoelectrochemical Reaction Engineering for Solar Fuels Production. In Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells. Advances in Solar Cell Materials and Storage 2. Scrivener-Wiley, 2018. |
Team
The team is composed of international team of researchers:
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| Isaac Holmes-Gentle | Sophia Haussener | Roel van de Krol | Anna Hankin | Heather Page | Fatwa Abdi | Ibrahim Ahmet | Franky Bedoya-Lora | Fabrice David |
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Funding bodies
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EPFL Open Science Fund | Awarded 1st June 2020, 1 year project |
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ETH-Domain's ORD Contribute project | SolarFuelsDB+. Project number: EPFL SCR0714324. Project dates: 1st July 2022 - 31st May 2023. |
How to cite this project?
All datasets and plots are available through the SolarFuelsDB are published under an Open Access licience: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). More information on this licence can be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
We are in the process of getting this resource published in a peer reviewed journal. Once published, we request that you cite both this publication and the website.
- Holmes-Gentle, I. et al. (2021, April 21). SolarFuelsDB. Retrieved from https://www.solarfuelsdb.epfl.ch
External resources
HydroGEN datahub - The datahub is a data repository for research conducted by the Advanced Water Splitting Materials National Laboratory Consortium (HydroGEN)
Helmholtz Energy Materials Foundry (HEMF) - A new large-scale collaborative research-and-development platform dedicated to the synthesis of new and improved materials for energy conversion and storage applications.
