SNLSoft Nanoscience Letters2160-0600Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/snl.2013.34019SNL-38228EditorialChemistry&Materials Science Hydrogen from Sunlight Water Splitting: Is It Our Future? ranciscoMárquez1*KleberR Pirota2CarmenMorant3Instituto de Fisíca Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, S?o Paulo, Brazil; Department of Applied Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.Nanomaterials Research Group, School of Science and Technology, University of Turabo, Gurabo, USA;* E-mail:fmarquez@suagm.edu(RM);111020130304107108September 7th, 2013October 7th, 2013 October 14th, 2013© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Environmental pollution and the growing need to find new sources of energy are some of the challenges of our century. The unstoppable growth of population, the in creasing energy needs of emerging countries, and the foreseeable shortage of fossil fuels in a few years, make imperative to develop new energy generation processes and, in this regard, nanotechnology and the development of new nanomaterials will play a decisive role for the future of the planet.

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