Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting, which is a type of artificial photosynthesis, is a
sustainable way of converting solar energy into chemical energy. The water oxidation half …

Photonic nanostructures, manipulating and confining light on the nanometer scale, provide
new opportunities to improve the efficiency of solar energy conversion. Optical microcavities …

Photocatalytic materials development is very important in the environmental perspective.
They can be employed in clean energy production by hydrogen generation as well as in …

Periodic structures with alternating refractive indices such as inverse opal photonic crystals
are capable of reducing the group velocity of light such that this slowed light can be more …

Manipulation of light has been proved to be a promising strategy to increase light harvesting
in solar-to-chemical energy conversion, especially in photocatalysis. Inverse opal (IO) …

The preparation of an optically responsive supercapacitor is reported in this work. The
electrode material has been prepared through electrodeposition of bismuth vanadate …

Most oxide semiconductor photoanode materials for water splitting are synthesized in
ambient environment. Oxygen vacancy exists in these samples making them intrinsically n …

The present research work focuses on bismuth vanadate (BiVO 4) thin films deposited on
FTO-coated glass electrodes through the spin-coating technique, and discusses the …

Semiconductor metal oxides are intensively studied in electrodes for photoelectrochemical
(PEC) water splitting. On a series of nanoparticulate TiO 2 photoanodes, we analyze specific …

Chemical oxygen demand (COD) is a critical analytical parameter for organic pollutants in
the aqueous system. Most COD detection methods have disadvantages such as virulence …