[HTML][HTML] ZnO tetrapod materials for functional applications

YK Mishra, R Adelung - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last 15 years, more than 50,000 papers with zinc oxide (ZnO) in the title are listed
within ISI database. The outstanding popularity of ZnO has many reasons; the most …

Atomic/molecular layer deposition for energy storage and conversion

Y Zhao, L Zhang, J Liu, K Adair, F Zhao… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Energy storage and conversion systems, including batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells,
solar cells, and photoelectrochemical water splitting, have played vital roles in the reduction …

A heterojunction strategy to improve the visible light sensitive water splitting performance of photocatalytic materials

K Afroz, M Moniruddin, N Bakranov… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalytic water splitting is a promising path for generating hydrogen which will
decrease the dependency on conventional fossil fuels to generate power and provides an …

Interface engineering of heterojunction photocatalysts based on 1D nanomaterials

Y Zhong, C Peng, Z He, D Chen, H Jia… - Catalysis Science & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconductor photocatalysis is considered a promising approach to solve the current
energy shortage and environmental pollution problems. Due to their unique structures and …

Enhanced photoelectrochemical water-splitting performance of semiconductors by surface passivation layers

R Liu, Z Zheng, J Spurgeon, X Yang - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
An important approach for solving the world's sustainable energy challenges is the
conversion of solar energy to chemical fuels. Semiconductors can be used to convert/store …

Enabling silicon for solar-fuel production

K Sun, S Shen, Y Liang, PE Burrows, SS Mao… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
After over 150 years of exploiting fossil fuels, nowadays humans are encountering two great
global problems: the increasingly serious environmental pollution and the expected …

Interface engineering for modulation of charge carrier behavior in ZnO photoelectrochemical water splitting

Z Kang, H Si, S Zhang, J Wu, Y Sun… - Advanced functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photoelectrochemical water splitting via consumption of solar energy is considered an
alternative approach to address both fossil resource and global warming issues. On the …

A highly active three-dimensional Z-scheme ZnO/Au/g-C3N4 photocathode for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

P Wen, Y Sun, H Li, Z Liang, H Wu, J Zhang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
All-solid-state Z-scheme photocatalyts have been widely used in solar water splitting, but
most of the previous applications are achieved through powder systems. Herein, a Z …

Branched WO3 Nanosheet Array with Layered C3N4 Heterojunctions and CoOx Nanoparticles as a Flexible Photoanode for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water …

Y Hou, F Zuo, AP Dagg, J Liu, P Feng - Advanced materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201401032 transport time and distance for directional face-to-face
migration of photogenerated charge,[14] thus greatly reducing the recombination probability …

ZnO/CuO heterojunction branched nanowires for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation

A Kargar, Y Jing, SJ Kim, CT Riley, X Pan, D Wang - Acs Nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report a facile and large-scale fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) ZnO/CuO
heterojunction branched nanowires (b-NWs) and their application as photocathodes for …