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 …

Highly selective semiconductor photocatalysis for CO 2 reduction

S Yao, J He, F Gao, H Wang, J Lin, Y Bai… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past few decades, photocatalytic CO2 reduction has remained a prominent and
growing research field due to the efficient conversion of CO2 to value-added chemicals …

Structure Sensitivity of Au‐TiO2 Strong Metal–Support Interactions

Y Zhang, JX Liu, K Qian, A Jia, D Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Strong metal–support interactions (SMSI) is an important concept in heterogeneous
catalysis. Herein, we demonstrate that the Au‐TiO2 SMSI of Au/TiO2 catalysts sensitively …

Determination of crystallographic orientation and exposed facets of titanium oxide nanocrystals

J Qu, Y Wang, X Mu, J Hu, B Zeng, Y Lu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanocrystals have attracted great attention in heterogeneous
photocatalysis and photoelectricity fields for decades. However, contradicting conclusions …

Nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide as visible-light-sensitive photocatalyst: designs, developments, and prospects

R Asahi, T Morikawa, H Irie, T Ohwaki - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is well-known to be the most practical and prevalent photocatalyst,
1− 17 for it is chemically stable, abundant, nontoxic, and cost-effective. Photogenerated …

Titanium dioxide crystals with tailored facets

G Liu, HG Yang, J Pan, YQ Yang, GQ Lu… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) has been the most intensively investigated binary transition metal
oxide in the past four decades as indicated by Figure S1. Furthermore, the annual number of …

Recent development in defects engineered photocatalysts: an overview of the experimental and theoretical strategies

Z Zafar, S Yi, J Li, C Li, Y Zhu, A Zada… - Energy & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Nano‐photocatalytic materials: possibilities and challenges

H Tong, S Ouyang, Y Bi, N Umezawa… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor photocatalysis has received much attention as a potential solution to the
worldwide energy shortage and for counteracting environmental degradation. This article …

Grain boundary complexions

PR Cantwell, M Tang, SJ Dillon, J Luo, GS Rohrer… - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Grain boundaries exhibit phase-like behavior in which their structure, chemistry and
properties may change discontinuously at critical values of thermodynamic parameters such …

Advanced nanoarchitectures for solar photocatalytic applications

A Kubacka, M Fernandez-Garcia, G Colon - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1.1. Scope of the Review Since they were first described in the scientific literature,
photoinduced processes have been studied with a view to developing several industrially …