Gas separation in solar splitting of water

[stever]

I saw recently a new article about some kind of PEC cell immersed in water which could separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. (It was news because they found a way to protect the cell from immediate corrosion damage) It seemed that somehow the scientists had designed a cell that could put the hydrogen in one place and oxygen in another place. If this is true, how could they have the gasses go to different places? Any ideas? I will look for the original paper but I doubt i will get access to it.

 

[Bystander]

You can do some reading on "electrolysis" and understand the main part of the trick behind "putting the hydrogen in one place and the oxygen in another place."

 

[stever]

Thanks Bystander. After looking around for awhile, I found this free article on PEC cells titled Monolithic cells for solar fuels: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/cs/c3cs60424a