Heterogeneous photocatalysis has been widely applied in various fields, such as
photovoltaic cell, solar water splitting, photocatalytic pollutant degradation, and so on …

The prospect of engineering the bandgap in semiconductor nanostructures all the way from
ultraviolet to visible is highly significant in various applications such as photocatalysis …

Solar CO2 reduction efficiency is largely limited by poor photoabsorption, sluggish electron–
hole separation, and a high CO2 activation barrier. Defect engineering was employed to …

Recently, defect architectured photocatalysis is proved to be the most versatile choice for
high solar to chemical energy conversion processes. Defect engineering strategies are of …

The field of surface science provides a unique approach to understanding bulk, surface and
interfacial phenomena occurring during TiO 2 photocatalysis. This review highlights, from a …

A large variety of reduced titanium dioxide (TiO 2-x) materials have been reported recently.
Reduced TiO 2, usually resulting from the removal of oxygen atoms or hydrogen …

The field of photocatalysis can be traced back more than 80 years to early observations of
the chalking of titania-based paints and to studies of the darkening of metal oxides in contact …

We demonstrate that oxygen vacancies on the {001} facets of BiOCl nanosheets can more
sustainably activate molecular oxygen for organic pollutant removal under solar light than …

The interaction of water with TiO2 is crucial to many of its practical applications, including
photocatalytic water splitting. Following the first demonstration of this phenomenon 40 years …

The photoactivation of TiO2 has received enormous attention from scientists and engineers
in the past decade. This interest has been generated because of the confluence of several …