Photothermal materials: A key platform enabling highly efficient water evaporation driven by solar energy

X Wu, GY Chen, G Owens, D Chu, H Xu - Materials Today Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Conversion and utilization of solar energy is one of the most important strategies being
proposed to mitigate the foreshadowed global energy crisis and environmental issues …

Water harvesting strategies through solar steam generator systems

C Onggowarsito, A Feng, S Mao, LN Nguyen… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar steam generator (SSG) systems have attracted increasing attention, owing to its simple
manufacturing, material abundance, cost‐effectiveness, and environmentally friendly …

High rate CO2 photoreduction using flame annealed TiO2 nanotubes

P Kar, S Zeng, Y Zhang, E Vahidzadeh… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The photocatalytic reduction of CO 2 into light hydrocarbons using sunlight and water is a
challenging reaction involving eight electron transfer steps; nevertheless, it has great …

Comparative Study of TiO2/CuS Core/Shell and Composite Nanostructures for Efficient Visible Light Photocatalysis

S Khanchandani, S Kumar… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
An enduring impediment in the photocatalysis domain is the rapid recombination of
photoinduced charge carriers. One viable strategy to realize efficient separation of …

Photocatalytic activity of TiO2/Nb2O5/PANI and TiO2/Nb2O5/RGO as new nanocomposites for degradation of organic pollutants

S Zarrin, F Heshmatpour - Journal of hazardous materials, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, highly active titanium dioxide modified by niobium oxide (Nb 2 O 5), polymer
(PANI) and reduced graphene oxide (RGO) were successfully prepared. The morphology …

Aluminum doping for optimization of ultrathin and high-k dielectric layer based on SrTiO3

JY Baek, SY Lee, H Seo - Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
An ultrathin SrTiO 3 dielectric layer is optimized through Al doping to solve the problems
existing in development of ultra-high-k oxide MOS capacitors. Through post-deposition …

Recent progress in enhancing solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

J Chen, D Yang, D Song, J Jiang, A Ma, MZ Hu… - Journal of Power …, 2015 - Elsevier
Solar water splitting is a promising and ideal route for renewable production of hydrogen by
using the most abundant resources of solar light and water. Focusing on the working …

Reprint of “Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 on MgO/TiO2 nanotube films”

Q Li, L Zong, C Li, J Yang - Applied surface science, 2014 - Elsevier
A facile development of highly efficient MgO/TiO 2 nanotubes network (MgO/TNTs) films is
described. These MgO/TNTs films have a unique one-dimensional (1D) network …

Self-doped TiO2 nanowires in TiO2-B single phase, TiO2-B/anatase and TiO2-anatase/rutile heterojunctions demonstrating individual superiority in photocatalytic …

P Makal, D Das - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
TiO 2 nanowires possess structurally well-defined physical and chemical properties related
to their dimensional confinements. However, the obscure phase transformation mechanism …

Modeling off-stoichiometry materials with a high-throughput ab-initio approach

K Yang, C Oses, S Curtarolo - Chemistry of Materials, 2016 - ACS Publications
Predicting material properties of off-stoichiometry systems remains a long-standing and
formidable challenge in rational materials design. A proper analysis of such systems by …