Direct solar hydrogen production via photovoltaic effect and catalysis in single integrated system bypassing electrolysis process altogether

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australian-researchers-close-in-on-low-cost-solar-hydrogen-tech-with-no-electrolysers/

"conventional solar cell technologies adapted... use of cocatalyst foils for stabilising photoelectrodes while attaining high water splitting efficiencies...  depositing catalysts on metal foils prior to device fabrication and... protecting photoabsorbers from corrosive solution during operation... catalytic interface fully-decoupled from the photoabsorber... solar-to-hydrogen efficiencies approaching theoretical limits... prospect to address intermittency problem"