A 1,000-fold longer charge lifetime helps organic catalyst produce solar hydrogen faster

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Researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with researchers from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of CAS, have developed a coumarin-…

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:00:08 UTC.

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