Recent advancements in the use of novel piezoelectric materials for piezocatalytic and piezo-photocatalytic applications

H Zheng, Y Wang, J Liu, K Yan, K Zhu - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Piezocatalysis has gradually attracted the interest of researchers owing to their excellent
ability to improve the separation and migration of photoelectrons and holes. The alternating …

Review on strategies toward efficient piezocatalysis of BaTiO3 nanomaterials for wastewater treatment through harvesting vibration energy

Q Zhang, Y Jia, W Wu, C Pei, G Zhu, Z Wu, L Zhang… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
An emerging, environmentally friendly and sustainable method of decomposition
wastewater urgently needs to be proposed due to the environmental crisis and the …

Design strategies and effect comparisons toward efficient piezocatalytic system

C Wang, C Hu, F Chen, T Ma, Y Zhang, H Huang - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Efficient conversion of mechanical energy via piezocatalysis behaves great potential on
relieving energy crisis and environmental deterioration, and functioning for sterilization …

[HTML][HTML] High piezo/photocatalytic efficiency of Ag/Bi5O7I nanocomposite using mechanical and solar energy for N2 fixation and methyl orange degradation

L Chen, W Zhang, J Wang, X Li, Y Li, X Hu… - Green Energy & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In this work, Ag/Bi 5 O 7 I nanocomposite was prepared and firstly applied in
piezo/photocatalytic reduction of N 2 to NH 3 and methyl orange (MO) degradation. Bi 5 O 7 I …

Piezo-enhanced charge carrier separation over plasmonic Au-BiOBr for piezo-photocatalytic carbamazepine removal

J Hu, Y Chen, Y Zhou, L Zeng, Y Huang, S Lan… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
The piezo-photocatalytic effect of Au decorated bismuth oxybromide (BiOBr) was
investigated to elucidate the regulation of built-in electric field on charge carrier dynamics …

Cadmium sulfide modified zinc oxide heterojunction harvesting ultrasonic mechanical energy for efficient decomposition of dye wastewater

X Li, J Wang, J Zhang, C Zhao, Y Wu, Y He - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
CdS/ZnO nano heterojunction was synthesized and applied in piezocatalytic degradation of
rhodamine B (RhB) under ultrasonic vibration. The optimal CdS/ZnO composite with a CdS …

[HTML][HTML] KNbO3/ZnO heterojunction harvesting ultrasonic mechanical energy and solar energy to efficiently degrade methyl orange

Y Li, H Chen, L Wang, T Wu, Y Wu, Y He - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper, KNbO 3/ZnO nanocomposite was synthesized and used in
piezo/photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange (MO) under simulated sunlight and …

Piezoelectric polarization promoted spatial separation of photoexcited electrons and holes in two-dimensional g-C3N4 nanosheets for efficient elimination of …

H Lei, Q He, M Wu, Y Xu, P Sun, X Dong - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N 4) has been proved to be a potential photocatalyst for
environment purification, but the high recombination rate of photogenerated carriers leads to …

Flexible Ag@LiNbO3/PVDF Composite Film for Piezocatalytic Dye/Pharmaceutical Degradation and Bacterial Disinfection

G Singh, M Sharma, R Vaish - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
A flexible poly (vinylidene difluoride)(PVDF) composite film embedding LiNbO3 ceramics
decorated with silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) has been synthesized using the solvent casting …

Enhanced piezo‐photoelectric catalysis with oriented carrier migration in asymmetric Au− ZnO nanorod array

D Xiang, Z Liu, M Wu, H Liu, X Zhang, Z Wang… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Current photocatalytic semiconductors often have low catalytic performance due to limited
light utilization and fast charge carrier recombination. Formation of Schottky junction …