Plasmonic‐pyroelectric materials and structures

Q Wang, CR Bowen, VK Valev - Advanced Functional Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With the growing global energy crisis, research into new energy materials that can
potentially transfer heat into electricity has become a worldwide imperative. Pyroelectric …

Natural tourmaline for pyroelectric dye decomposition under 25–60° C room-temperature cold-hot fluctuation

Z Wu, T Xu, X Wang, L Zhang, C Zhao, W Wu… - Separation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tourmaline is a typical natural pyroelectric material. In this work, the pyroelectric property of
tourmaline micro-powder is used to chemically deal with dyes wastewater under room …

Retrievable Hierarchically Porous Ferroelectric Ceramics for “Greening” the Piezo‐Catalysis Process

H Gong, Y Zhang, J Ye, X Zhou, X Zhou… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Powder‐based piezo‐catalysis, as an effective approach to degrade wastewater and
produce hydrogen from water splitting, has been widely used in the field of energy …

Unleashing solar energy's full potential: Synergetic thermo-photo catalysis for enhanced hydrogen production with metal-free carbon nitrides

J Fang, D Wang, H Xu, F Sun, Y Fan, R Chen… - Energy Conversion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional photocatalytic hydrogen production processes are limited by their dependency
on photons possessing energy levels surpassing the material's bandgap, thus restricting …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of low-carbon hydrogen production via water splitting driven by piezoelectric and pyroelectric catalysis

S Touili, D Mezzane, Z Kutnjak, IA Luk'Yanchuk… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The focus on sustainable energy sources is intensifying as they present a viable alternative
to conventional fossil fuels. The emergence of clean and renewable hydrogen fuel marks a …

Constructing micro-nano rod-shaped iron-molybdenum oxide heterojunctions to enhance overall water electrolysis

S Vijayapradeep, RS Kumar, R Shanmugam… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we describe the development of ferromolybdenum oxide (FeMoO), which is a
heterojunction characterized by a rod-like structure. The synergistic interactions of iron …

Green and efficient piezocatalytic hydrogen production achieved by modifying SrBi 4 Ti 4 O 15 with CdSe

T Hou, L Chen, Y Yang, J Wang, T Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The mechanical vibration-assisted piezoelectric catalytic water splitting for hydrogen
production is a promising approach to address the energy crisis. However, most …

Significant hydrogen generation via photo-mechanical coupling in flexible methylammonium lead iodide nanowires

Y Zhang, J Huang, M Zhu, Z Zhang, K Nie, Z Wang… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The flexoelectric effect, which refers to the mechanical-electric coupling between strain
gradient and charge polarization, should be considered for use in charge production for …

Ab initio investigation of tunable CO 2 reduction reaction on the two dimensional ferroelectric Y 2 CO 2

M Li, J Young - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The catalytic reduction of CO2 to value-added fuels is a promising way to eliminate
greenhouse gas emissions, but the development of efficient catalysts is hampered by …

S-scheme core-shell nanorods heterojunction of g-C3N4 quantum dots modified Er: WO3/CdS towards visible light H2 evolution via up-conversion fluorescence …

H Li, X Li, L Que, X Xu, J Cao, J Pan, M Zhu - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
S-scheme core-shell nanorods heterojunction of Er: WO 3/CdS/gC 3 N 4 QDs is fabricated
via hydrothermal-chemical-annealing method. Er: WO 3/CdS/gC 3 N 4 QDs S-scheme …