Recent advances and perspectives for solar-driven water splitting using particulate photocatalysts

X Tao, Y Zhao, S Wang, C Li, R Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The conversion and storage of solar energy to chemical energy via artificial photosynthesis
holds significant potential for optimizing the energy situation and mitigating the global …

Particulate photocatalysts for light-driven water splitting: mechanisms, challenges, and design strategies

Q Wang, K Domen - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven water splitting provides a leading approach to store the abundant yet
intermittent solar energy and produce hydrogen as a clean and sustainable energy carrier. A …

Engineering heterogeneous semiconductors for solar water splitting

X Li, J Yu, J Low, Y Fang, J Xiao, X Chen - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a growing interest in the conversion of water and solar energy into clean and
renewable H2 fuels using earth-abundant materials due to the depletion of fossil fuel and its …

Salt‐melt synthesis of poly heptazine imides with enhanced optical absorption for photocatalytic hydrogen production

M Chang, Z Pan, D Zheng, S Wang, G Zhang… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Broadening the visible light absorption range and accelerating the separation and migration
process of charge carriers are effective ways to improve photocatalytic quantum efficiencies …

Semiconductor-based photocatalysts and photoelectrochemical cells for solar fuel generation: a review

J Li, N Wu - Catalysis Science & Technology, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
To address the challenge in sustainable global development, considerable effort has been
made to produce fuels from renewable resources with photocatalysts and …

Semiconductor composites: strategies for enhancing charge carrier separation to improve photocatalytic activity

R Marschall - Advanced Functional Materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The formation of semiconductor composites comprising multicomponent or multiphase
heterojunctions is a very effective strategy to design highly active photocatalyst systems …

Anionic Group Self-Doping as a Promising Strategy: Band-Gap Engineering and Multi-Functional Applications of High-Performance CO32–-Doped Bi2O2CO3

H Huang, X Li, J Wang, F Dong, PK Chu, T Zhang… - Acs …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We herein demonstrate self-doping of the CO32–anionic group into a wide bandgap
semiconductor Bi2O2CO3 realized by a one-pot hydrothermal technique. The …

Zinc oxide based photocatalysis: tailoring surface-bulk structure and related interfacial charge carrier dynamics for better environmental applications

SG Kumar, KSRK Rao - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
As an alternative to the gold standard TiO2 photocatalyst, the use of zinc oxide (ZnO) as a
robust candidate for wastewater treatment is widespread due to its similarity in charge …

Piezo-Catalytic Effect on the Enhancement of the Ultra-High Degradation Activity in the Dark by Single-and Few-Layers MoS2 Nanoflowers.

JM Wu, WE Chang, YT Chang… - … Materials (Deerfield Beach …, 2016 - europepmc.org
Single-and few-layer MoS2 nanoflowers are first discovered to have a piezo-catalyst effect,
exhibiting an ultra-high degradation activity in the dark by introducing external mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] A fantastic graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) material: electronic structure, photocatalytic and photoelectronic properties

G Dong, Y Zhang, Q Pan, J Qiu - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2014 - Elsevier
As an analog of graphite, graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N 4) has been the hotspot in the
materials science for its unique electronic structure. With medium band gap as well as …