The project targets the development of efficient and cost effective hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting based on novel nanostructured and heterostructured materials. Important new concepts and approaches which are going well beyond the state-of-the-art, will be applied cooperatively from the Greek and China participating groups, to achieving our goals and objectives. The final goal is the development of a small scale prototype set-up that will be constructed with the guidance of LINDE Hellas, along with the execution of a feasibility study by the company, aiming to incorporate the new technology into their existing large scale infrastructure.

Two new concepts in terms of material’s design will be fully explored for the production of highly active photocatalysts towards water splitting: a) the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)/black titania nanostructured composites and b) oxide semiconductor/metallic core-shell, heterostructures.