Enabling internal electric fields to enhance energy and environmental catalysis

L Chen, JT Ren, ZY Yuan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in exploiting advanced photo‐
/electrocatalysts for efficient energy conversion and environmental remediation …

Step-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts for solar energy, water splitting, CO2 conversion, and bacterial inactivation: a review

V Hasija, A Kumar, A Sudhaik, P Raizada… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Solar radiation is a sustainable, unlimited source of energy for electricity and chemical
reactions, yet the conversion efficiency of actual processes is limited and controlled by …

Recent advances in noncontact external-field-assisted photocatalysis: from fundamentals to applications

X Li, W Wang, F Dong, Z Zhang, L Han, X Luo… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The effective separation of photogenerated carriers plays a vital role in photocatalytic
reactions. In addition to the intrinsic driving force of photocatalysis, an external field …

Piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, and ferroelectricity in biomaterials and biomedical applications

X Yuan, J Shi, Y Kang, J Dong, Z Pei, X Ji - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and ferroelectric materials are considered unique biomedical
materials due to their dielectric crystals and asymmetric centers that allow them to directly …

Internal electric field on steering charge migration: modulations, determinations and energy‐related applications

X Yue, J Fan, Q Xiang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Energy‐related problems induced by ever‐continuous fossil consumption have arisen as
one of the most challenging issues in the 21st century, imposing urgent demands on …

Direct Z-scheme heterojunction of ZnO/MoS2 nanoarrays realized by flowing-induced piezoelectric field for enhanced sunlight photocatalytic performances

Y Fu, Z Ren, J Wu, Y Li, W Liu, P Li, L Xing, J Ma… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Direct Z-scheme heterojunction of ZnO/MoS 2 nanoarray on Ni foam has been realized by
flowing induced piezoelectric field for enhanced sunlight photocatalytic performances. The …

Recent advances of ferro-, piezo-, and pyroelectric nanomaterials for catalytic applications

S Li, Z Zhao, J Zhao, Z Zhang, X Li… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ferro-, piezo-, and pyroelectric materials are emerging as potential candidates for
converting various forms of primary energy from the ambient environment (eg, sunlight …

Efficient CO2 reduction to reveal the piezocatalytic mechanism: From displacement current to active sites

Z Ren, F Chen, Q Zhao, G Zhao, H Li, W Sun… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Piezocatalysis has attracted the increasing interest of researchers as a novel catalytic
method. To date, there are two popular mechanisms regarding the piezocatalysis, ie, the …

Solar‐powered chemistry: Engineering low‐dimensional carbon nitride‐based nanostructures for selective CO2 conversion to C1C2 products

SF Ng, JJ Foo, WJ Ong - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
CO2 capture and conversion has been prospected as an auspicious technology to
simultaneously tackle the rise in global CO2 emission and produce value‐added fuels with …

Synergetic photocatalysis/piezocatalysis of bismuth oxybromide for degradation of organic pollutants

H Lei, H Zhang, Y Zou, X Dong, Y Jia… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bismuth oxybromide (BiOBr) has been proved to be a potential photocatalyst for removal of
organic pollutants, but the insufficient separation of photo-generated electrons and holes …