Recent progress in energy‐driven water splitting

SY Tee, KY Win, WS Teo, LD Koh, S Liu… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen is readily obtained from renewable and non‐renewable resources via water
splitting by using thermal, electrical, photonic and biochemical energy. The major hydrogen …

Amorphous inorganic semiconductors for the development of solar cell, photoelectrocatalytic and photocatalytic applications

B Wang, GM Biesold, M Zhang, Z Lin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Amorphous inorganic semiconductors have attracted growing interest due to their unique
electrical and optical properties that arise from their intrinsic disordered structure and …

[HTML][HTML] Composite titanium dioxide nanomaterials

M Dahl, Y Liu, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Titanium dioxide (titania, TiO 2) has been fervently researched over the past few decades
due to its potential applications across many different areas. Thanks to its bulk properties …

Light-Assisted Preparation of a ZnO/CdS Nanocomposite for Enhanced Photocatalytic H2 Evolution: An Insight into Importance of in Situ Generated ZnS

H Zhao, Y Dong, P Jiang, G Wang, H Miao… - ACS Sustainable …, 2015 - ACS Publications
In our work, ZnO/CdS hybrid photocatalysts were prepared by a simple and reproducible
photodeposition method and the content of deposited CdS can be varied by irradiation time …

Enhancement mechanisms of graphene in nano-58S bioactive glass scaffold: mechanical and biological performance

C Gao, T Liu, C Shuai, S Peng - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Graphene is a novel material and currently popular as an enabler for the next-generation
nanocomposites. Here, we report the use of graphene to improve the mechanical properties …

Band alignment investigations of heterostructure NiO/TiO 2 nanomaterials used as efficient heterojunction earth-abundant metal oxide photocatalysts for hydrogen …

MT Uddin, Y Nicolas, C Olivier… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Earth-abundant NiO/anatase TiO2 heteronanostructures were prepared by a straightforward
one-pot sol–gel synthetic route followed by a suitable thermal post-treatment. The resulting …

ZnO/Sn3O4 amorphous-crystalline heterojunctions for Cr (VI) visible photocatalysis: Simple synthesis with excellent performance

C Jin, X Yang, X Zhai, SB Wang, W Zhang - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper is devoted to the construction of amorphous/crystalline heterojunction by a
simple one-step hydrothermal method to realize the effective photocatalytic reduction of high …

Synthesis of tunable band gap semiconductor nickel sulphide nanoparticles: rapid and round the clock degradation of organic dyes

A Molla, M Sahu, S Hussain - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Controlled shape and size with tuneable band gap (1.92–2.41 eV), nickel sulphide NPs was
achieved in presence of thiourea or thioacetamide as sulphur sources with the variations of …

Synthesis of Au-Decorated V2O5@ZnO Heteronanostructures and Enhanced Plasmonic Photocatalytic Activity

H Yin, K Yu, C Song, R Huang… - ACS applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A ternary plasmonic photocatalyst consisting of Au-decorated V2O5@ ZnO heteronanorods
was successfully fabricated by an innovative four-step process: thermal evaporation of ZnO …

Facile synthesis of CdS/TiO2 nanocomposite and their catalytic activity for ofloxacin degradation under visible illumination

A Kaur, A Umar, WA Anderson, SK Kansal - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper, CdS/TiO 2 nanoparticles were hydrothermally synthesized and
characterized in detail to understand its crystalline, structural, morphological, thermal and …