As the world decides on the next giant step for the renewable energy revolution, scientists
have begun to reinforce their headlong dives into the exploitation of solar energy. Hitherto …

Visible light-driven water splitting using cheap and robust photocatalysts is one of the most
exciting ways to produce clean and renewable energy for future generations. Cutting edge …

This is the age where the capture of solar energy for useful purposes has gained the
attention of the scientific and engineering world. The use of solar energy for the generation …

Water splitting on illuminated semiconductors has long been studied as a potential means of
converting solar energy into chemical energy in the form of H2, a clean and renewable …

Titanium dioxide, TiO 2, is an important photocatalytic material that exists as two main
polymorphs, anatase and rutile. The presence of either or both of these phases impacts on …

Overall water splitting to produce H2 and O2 over a semiconductor photocatalyst using solar
energy is a promising process for the large-scale production of clean, recyclable H2 …

Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting using semiconductor
materials has attracted considerable interest due to its potential to cleanly produce H2 from …

The utilization of solar irradiation to supply energy or to initiate chemical reactions is already
an established idea. If a wide-band gap semiconductor like titanium dioxide (TiO2) is …

The TiO2 powder (Degussa, P-25), which is a standard material in the field of photocatalytic
reactions, contains anatase and rutile phases in a ratio of about 3: 1. Transmission electron …

The presence of transition metal ions in photocatalytic reactions is reviewed according to
two main approaches:(a) the influence of transition metal ions on the rate of photocatalytic …