| Budget Amount *help |
¥45,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥34,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥10,410,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥13,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥13,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥19,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,410,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The working principles of water-splitting photocatalyst sheets, consisting of particulate photocatalysts fixed on a plane, and panel reactors potentially scalable and inexpensive were studied. It was very important utilizing conductive materials that had low activity against backward reactions and that lowered energy barriers at the interface between photocatalysts and the conductive materials for the improvement of the water splitting activity. The use of conductive materials that did not inhibit sunlight absorption by photocatalysts was also preferable. Moreover, the scalability of panel reactors was experimentally demonstrated using proto-type 1-m2 panel reactors.
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