Highlights and challenges in the selective reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol

S Navarro-Jaén, M Virginie, J Bonin, M Robert… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the iconic greenhouse gas and the major factor driving present
global climate change, incentivizing its capture and recycling into valuable products and …

Photocatalytic Z‐Scheme Overall Water Splitting: Recent Advances in Theory and Experiments

J Abdul Nasir, A Munir, N Ahmad, T Haq… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalytic water splitting is considered one of the most important and appealing
approaches for the production of green H2 to address the global energy demand. The …

Enhanced photocatalytic degradation performance of BiVO4/BiOBr through combining Fermi level alteration and oxygen defect engineering

C Liu, S Mao, M Shi, X Hong, D Wang, F Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Constructing oxygen vacancies (Ov) has been widely used to enhance photocatalytic activity
as a conventional and efficient approach, but its influence on the interfacial charge transfer …

Degradation of antibiotics by advanced oxidation processes: An overview

J Wang, R Zhuan - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Antibiotics are becoming emerging contaminants due to their extensive production and
consumption, which have caused hazards to the ecological environment and human health …

A review on photo-, electro-and photoelectro-catalytic strategies for selective oxidation of alcohols

D Tang, G Lu, Z Shen, Y Hu, L Yao, B Li, G Zhao… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional conversion of alcohols into carbonyl compounds exists a few drawbacks such as
harsh reaction conditions, production of large amounts of hazardous wastes, and poor …

Photocatalytic applications of metal oxides for sustainable environmental remediation

MSS Danish, LL Estrella, IMA Alemaida, A Lisin… - Metals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Along with industrialization and rapid urbanization, environmental remediation is globally a
perpetual concept to deliver a sustainable environment. Various organic and inorganic …

Advances in designing heterojunction photocatalytic materials

Z Wang, Z Lin, S Shen, W Zhong, S Cao - Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Under the background of increasing energy crisis and global warming, semiconductor-
based photocatalysis has received tremendous attention due to its potential application in …

Current perspective of nano-engineered metal oxide based photocatalysts in advanced oxidation processes for degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater

A Pattnaik, JN Sahu, AK Poonia, P Ghosh - … Engineering Research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal oxides have attracted considerable attention as an emerging group of visible-light-
driven photocatalysts due to their cleaner processes, outstanding photo-oxidation ability and …

Structure, properties, and characterization of mullite-type materials Bi2M4O9 and their applications in photocatalysis: a review

M Ismael - Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The effectiveness or activity of the catalysts utilized in the visible light area is a key factor in
the success of photocatalysis in many applications. Even though several photocatalysts …

Magnetic dual Z-scheme g-C3N4/BiVO4/CuFe2O4 heterojunction as an efficient visible-light-driven peroxymonosulfate activator for levofloxacin degradation

X Li, T Chen, Y Qiu, Z Zhu, H Zhang, D Yin - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The coupling of photocatalysis and peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation is considered as a
promising strategy for the removal of organic pollutants. However, the development of visible …