Electrocatalytic water splitting (EWS) is a promising route to produce hydrogen in a
sustainable and environment-benign manner. To realize the large-scale hydrogen …

Oxygen vacancies implantation is an efficient way to adjust the physical and chemical
properties of metal oxide nanomaterials to meet the requirements for particular applications …

Designing an architecture with the ability to temporarily capture one kind of charge carrier
has a critical role to play in enhancing the performance of photocatalytic reactions. Here, we …

Perovskite is a type of intriguing metal oxide, capable of performing multiple environmental
applications, due to its salient feature to be tailored-prepared during the synthesis stage. In …

Co-applying facet and defect engineering on SrTiO 3 is critical to enhance the photocatalytic
activity, and the Sr 2+ vacancies contribute to the greater modulation capacity in A-site for …

Defects (Ti3+ or oxygen vacancies) have been demonstrated to promote the charge
separation process in TiO2 based photocatalysts. Particularly, the bulk defects within a …

This article focuses on variation in the values for the optical bandgaps (E g) experimentally
reported for fourteen oxide semiconductors that have been studied for solar …

SrTiO3 is an important photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution under solar light, a promising
way to solve energy shortage. However, a rapid and efficient method to synthesize high …

To promote the performance of metal oxides, introducing oxygen vacancies is an effective
strategy. Oxygen vacancies can tailor the atomic arrangement and band structure, thus …

Defects play an important and in many cases dominant role in the physical and chemical
properties of many oxide materials. In this work, we show that the surface Ti 3+ defects in …