Developing sustainable, high-performance perovskites in photocatalysis: design strategies and applications

H Mai, D Chen, Y Tachibana, H Suzuki, R Abe… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy is attractive because it is free, renewable, abundant and sustainable.
Photocatalysis is one of the feasible routes to utilize solar energy for the degradation of …

Photocatalysis enhanced by external fields

C Hu, S Tu, N Tian, T Ma, Y Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient conversion of solar energy by means of photocatalysis shows huge potential to
relieve the ongoing energy crisis and increasing environmental pollution. However …

Revealing the Polarizations of Molecular Ferroelectrics via SHG Polarimetry at the Nanoscale

GW Du, YA Xiong, Q Pan, ZJ Feng, XX Cao, J Yao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multifarious molecular ferroelectrics with multipolar axial characteristics have emerged in
recent years, enriching the scenarios for energy harvesting, sensing, and information …

Two dimensional bismuth-based layered materials for energy-related applications

K Xu, L Wang, X Xu, SX Dou, W Hao, Y Du - Energy Storage Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Owing to unique structures and properties, 2D layered materials have exhibited great
potentials for energy-related applications. Among these, 2D Bi-based layered materials …

SrTiO3/Bi4Ti3O12 Nanoheterostructural Platelets Synthesized by Topotactic Epitaxy as Effective Noble-Metal-Free Photocatalysts for pH-Neutral Hydrogen …

M Maček Kržmanc, N Daneu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Low-temperature hydrothermal epitaxial growth and topochemical conversion (TC) reactions
offer unexploited possibilities for the morphological engineering of heterostructural and non …

Plasmonic Bi promotes the construction of Z-scheme heterojunction for efficient oxygen molecule activation

Y Chen, Y Zhou, J Zhang, J Li, T Yao, A Chen, M Xiang… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are essential to photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics in
water. In this work, we prepared Ag 3 PO 4/Bi@ Bi 4 Ti 3 O 12 by simple in-situ reduction …

Recent advances in two‐dimensional heterostructures: From band alignment engineering to advanced optoelectronic applications

X Sun, C Zhu, X Zhu, J Yi, Y Liu, D Li… - Advanced Electronic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamically engineering the band alignment between materials, especially 2D
semiconductors, is critically important for the design of novel devices with superior functions …

Flower-like Bi4Ti3O12/Carbon nanotubes as reservoir and promoter of polysulfide for lithium sulfur battery

Y Zhou, H Shu, Y Zhou, T Sun, M Han, Y Chen… - Journal of Power …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lithium-sulfur battery (LSB) is considered as the candidate of the new generation of
rechargeable power conservation equipment due to its preferable theoretical specific energy …

Ag bridged Z-scheme AgVO3/Bi4Ti3O12 heterojunction for enhanced antibiotic degradation

Y Chen, Y Zhou, J Zhang, J Li, T Yao, A Chen… - Journal of Physics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Construction of heterojunction is an effective way to improve the photocatalytic activity of
photocatalyst. In this work, a simple precipitation method was adopted to anchor rod-like …

Advances in bismuth-based non-centrosymmetric materials as polarization-enhanced photocatalysts for environmental remediation and energy conversion

M Wang, H Yu, K Yu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The past several years has witnessed great advances in boosting photocatalytic activity via
polarization field to promote the transfer and suppress the recombination of charge carriers …