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 …

Ultrasound-assisted piezoelectric photocatalysis: An effective strategy for enhancing hydrogen evolution from water splitting

F Yang, P Wang, J Hao, J Qu, Y Cai, X Yang, CM Li… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT Hydrogen (H 2), as a sustainable and clean energy source that has garnered
global attention, holds immense significance in the pursuit of reducing carbon emissions …

[PDF][PDF] Advances in piezoelectric polarization enhanced photocatalytic energy conversion

C Hu, H Huang - Acta Physico Chimica Sinica, 2023 - whxb.pku.edu.cn
Semiconductor-based photocatalysis is an efficient technology that reduces energy
consumption and environmental pollution; however, it is impeded by Coulombic attraction …

Oxygen‐Vacancy‐Rich Piezoelectric BiO2−x Nanosheets for Augmented Piezocatalytic, Sonothermal, and Enzymatic Therapies

L Yang, B Tian, Y Xie, S Dong, M Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Piezocatalytic therapy is a new‐emerging reactive oxygen species (ROS)‐enabled
therapeutic strategy that relies on built‐in electric field and energy‐band bending of …

1D/0D heterostructured ZnIn2S4@ ZnO S-scheme photocatalysts for improved H2O2 preparation

Y Wu, Y Yang, M Gu, C Bie, H Tan, B Cheng… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar photocatalysis is a promising, green, and sustainable technique for the synthesis of H
2 O 2. In this study, low-dimensional ZnO/ZnIn 2 S 4 S-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts …

Piezo-enhanced photocatalytic performance of ZnO nanorod array for pollutants degradation in dynamic water: Insight into the effect of velocity and inner flow field

Y Wen, J Chen, X Gao, H Che, P Wang, B Liu, Y Ao - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The piezoelectric effect, which can promote photocatalytic degradation of pollutants, has
attracted great attention. However, the effect of hydrodynamic factors on the performance is …

Dissolved oxygen in aeration-driven piezo-catalytic for antibiotics pollutants removal in water

M Zhang, W Guo, Y Chen, D He, AB Isaev… - Chinese Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The misuse of antibiotics and oxygen-lacking in aquaculture causes serious water
environmental problems. Herein, a piezoelectic odd-layered MoS 2 is prepared and applied …

High efficiently degradation of organic pollutants via low-speed water flow activation of Cu2O@ MoS2/PVDF modified pipeline with piezocatalysis performance

J Wang, Y Liang, Z Wang, B Huo, C Liu, X Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Using water flow energy in the environment for water treatment is a feasible solution to
alleviate energy shortages and environmental pollution. This work prepared a Cu 2 O …

Significant improvement and mechanism of tetracycline degradation with the synergistic piezoelectric effect of ZnO/CuS Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts

Q Gao, L Zhou, S Xu, S Dai, Q Zhu, Y Li - Environmental Science …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the current work, a CuS nanoflower-modified ZnO nanorod heterojunction was
synthesized by a two-step hydrothermal method. A synergetic piezo-photocatalytic system …

Enhanced Piezocatalytic Activity in Bi1/2Na1/2TiO3 for Water Splitting by Oxygen Vacancy Engineering

A Ranjan, KY Hsiao, CY Lin, YH Tseng… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Piezoelectric materials have demonstrated applicability in clean energy production and
environmental wastewater remediation through their ability to initiate a number of catalytic …