Photoreforming of waste polymers for sustainable hydrogen fuel and chemicals feedstock: waste to energy

M Ashraf, N Ullah, I Khan, W Tremel, S Ahmad… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy from renewable resources is central to environmental sustainability. Among the
renewables, sunlight-driven fuel synthesis is a sustainable and economical approach to …

Advancing photoreforming of organics: Highlights on photocatalyst and system designs for selective oxidation reactions

CY Toe, C Tsounis, J Zhang, H Masood… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoreforming is a process that harnesses the redox ability of photocatalysts upon
illumination, to simultaneously drive the reduction of H+ into hydrogen gas and oxidation of …

Building a bridge from solid wastes to solar fuels and chemicals via artificial photosynthesis

M Du, M Xing, S Kang, Y Ma, B Qiu, Y Chai - EcoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photoreforming (PR) is a process that splits water into hydrogen coupled with oxidation of
solid waste into value‐added products, which provides a way to mitigate resource depletion …

Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production from poly (vinyl alcohol) plastic-dissolved wastewater

P Miao, J Zhao, P Wang, R Shi, T Zhang - ACS Materials Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photocatalytic H2 production from water has garnered widespread attention in recent years.
However, the utilization of hole sacrificial agents poses challenges, such as resource …

Chemoenzymatic photoreforming: a sustainable approach for solar fuel generation from plastic feedstocks

S Bhattacharjee, C Guo, E Lam… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plastic upcycling through catalytic transformations is an attractive concept to valorize waste,
but the clean and energy-efficient production of high-value products from plastics remains …

Plastic waste as a feedstock for solar-driven H 2 generation

T Uekert, MF Kuehnel, DW Wakerley… - Energy & Environmental …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar-driven reforming of plastics offers a simple and low-energy means to turn waste into
H2. Here, we report the efficient photoreforming of three commonly produced polymers …

[HTML][HTML] Recent development of organic–inorganic hybrid photocatalysts for biomass conversion into hydrogen production

A Augustin, C Chuaicham, M Shanmugam… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last few years, photocatalysis using solar radiation has been explored extensively
to investigate the possibilities of producing fuels. The production and systematic usage of …

Photoreforming of polyester plastics into added-value chemicals coupled with H 2 evolution over a Ni 2 P/ZnIn 2 S 4 catalyst

CX Liu, R Shi, W Ma, F Liu, Y Chen - Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The recycling of plastic waste has attracted increasing attention because of its negative
effects on the ecological environment and human health. Photoreforming is emerging as a …

Boosted Photoreforming of Plastic Waste via Defect-Rich NiPS3 Nanosheets

S Zhang, H Li, L Wang, J Liu, G Liang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sustainable conversion of plastic waste to mitigate environmental threats and reclaim waste
value is important. Ambient-condition photoreforming is practically attractive to convert waste …

Scalable photocatalyst panels for photoreforming of plastic, biomass and mixed waste in flow

T Uekert, MA Bajada, T Schubert, CM Pichler… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven reforming uses sunlight and a photocatalyst to generate H2 fuel from waste at
ambient temperature and pressure. However, it faces practical scaling challenges such as …