Photocatalytic water splitting

S Nishioka, FE Osterloh, X Wang, TE Mallouk… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
With the goal of achieving large-scale H2 production from renewable resources, water
splitting into H2 and O2 using semiconductor photocatalysts (sometimes called artificial …

Imaging photogenerated charge carriers on surfaces and interfaces of photocatalysts with surface photovoltage microscopy

R Chen, F Fan, T Dittrich, C Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding photogenerated charge separation on the nano-to micrometer scale is the
key to optimizing the photocatalytic solar energy conversion efficiency. In the past few years …

Charge separation via asymmetric illumination in photocatalytic Cu2O particles

R Chen, S Pang, H An, J Zhu, S Ye, Y Gao, F Fan, C Li - Nature Energy, 2018 - nature.com
Solar-driven photocatalytic reactions provide a potential route to sustainable fuels. These
processes rely on the effective separation of photogenerated charges, and therefore …

Metal sulfide/MOF-based composites as visible-light-driven photocatalysts for enhanced hydrogen production from water splitting

Y Liu, D Huang, M Cheng, Z Liu, C Lai, C Zhang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar energy driven photocatalytic hydrogen (H 2) production from photocatalytic water
splitting is considered as one of the most promising technologies to solve the energy and …

Hybrid photoelectrochemical water splitting systems: from interface design to system assembly

F Niu, D Wang, F Li, Y Liu, S Shen… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has attracted increasing attention due to its
potential to mitigate energy and environmental issues. Hybrid PEC systems containing …

Photocatalysis versus photosynthesis: a sensitivity analysis of devices for solar energy conversion and chemical transformations

FE Osterloh - ACS Energy Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
The chemical literature often does not differentiate between photocatalytic (PC) and
photosynthetic (PS) processes (including artificial photosynthesis) even though these …

Well-controlled SrTiO3@ Mo2C core-shell nanofiber photocatalyst: boosted photo-generated charge carriers transportation and enhanced catalytic performance for …

X Yue, S Yi, R Wang, Z Zhang, S Qiu - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In artificial photocatalysis for hydrogen (H 2) generation from water reduction, low apparent
quantum efficiency (AQE) always confines the photocatalytic conversion efficiency. Here, we …

Nanoscale semiconductor/catalyst interfaces in photoelectrochemistry

FAL Laskowski, SZ Oener, MR Nellist, AM Gordon… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Semiconductor structures (for example, films, wires, particles) used in photoelectrochemical
devices are often decorated with nanoparticles that catalyse fuel-forming reactions …

Electronic structure basis for enhanced overall water splitting photocatalysis with aluminum doped SrTiO 3 in natural sunlight

Z Zhao, RV Goncalves, SK Barman… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Overall water splitting with photocatalyst particles presents a potentially cost-effective
pathway to hydrogen fuel, however, photocatalysts that can compete with the energy …

Reactant activation and photocatalysis mechanisms on Bi-metal@ Bi2GeO5 with oxygen vacancies: A combined experimental and theoretical investigation

X Li, W Zhang, W Cui, J Li, Y Sun, G Jiang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
The photocatalysis process follows two fundamental sequences: reactant adsorption and
surface photocatalysis. In this work, Bi metal-deposited Bi 2 GeO 5 (Bi@ BiGeO) is prepared …