Photoreforming of waste polymers for sustainable hydrogen fuel and chemicals feedstock: waste to energy

M Ashraf, N Ullah, I Khan, W Tremel, S Ahmad… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy from renewable resources is central to environmental sustainability. Among the
renewables, sunlight-driven fuel synthesis is a sustainable and economical approach to …

Cocatalysts for Selective Photoreduction of CO2 into Solar Fuels

X Li, J Yu, M Jaroniec, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Photoreduction of CO2 into sustainable and green solar fuels is generally believed to be an
appealing solution to simultaneously overcome both environmental problems and energy …

Titanium dioxide-based nanomaterials for photocatalytic fuel generations

Y Ma, X Wang, Y Jia, X Chen, H Han, C Li - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nowadays, with the rapid depletion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum oil), the
development of renewable energies based on sufficient energy sources with sustainable …

Photocatalytic hydrogen production: a rift into the future energy supply

KC Christoforidis, P Fornasiero - ChemCatChem, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalytic hydrogen (H2) production is a process that converts solar energy into
chemical energy by means of a suitable photocatalyst. After the huge amount of systems that …

Photocatalytic production of hydrogen from biomass-derived feedstocks

AV Puga - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The application of photocatalysis for the utilisation of sunlight energy is intensely
investigated in present times, particularly in prospect of generating solar fuels by hydrogen …

Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from biomass conversion

KA Davis, S Yoo, EW Shuler, BD Sherman, S Lee… - Nano …, 2021 - Springer
Biomass has incredible potential as an alternative to fossil fuels for energy production that is
sustainable for the future of humanity. Hydrogen evolution from photocatalytic biomass …

The roles of metal co-catalysts and reaction media in photocatalytic hydrogen production: Performance evaluation of M/TiO2 photocatalysts (M= Pd, Pt, Au) in different …

ZHN Al-Azri, WT Chen, A Chan, V Jovic, T Ina, H Idriss… - Journal of catalysis, 2015 - Elsevier
M/TiO 2 photocatalyst activity for H 2 production depends on both the metal co-catalyst (M)
and the reaction medium. To quantify such effects, we compared the performance of M/TiO 2 …

Solar hydrogen generation from lignocellulose

MF Kuehnel, E Reisner - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalytic reforming of lignocellulosic biomass is an emerging approach to produce
renewable H2. This process combines photo‐oxidation of aqueous biomass with …

Engineering stable Pt nanoparticles and oxygen vacancies on defective TiO2 via introducing strong electronic metal-support interaction for efficient CO2 …

LY Lin, S Kavadiya, X He, WN Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work for the first time reports the promoting effect of strong electronic metal-support
interaction (EMSI) in Pt/TiO 2-VO (VO: oxygen vacancy) for gas-phase CO 2 photoreduction …

Sub-micro-and nano-sized polyethylene terephthalate deconstruction with engineered protein nanopores

A Robles-Martín, R Amigot-Sánchez… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
The identification or design of biocatalysts to mitigate the accumulation of plastics, including
sub-micro-and nano-sized polyethylene terephthalate (nPET), is becoming a global …