Piezo-photocatalysts in the field of energy and environment: Designs, applications, and prospects

L Jing, Y Xu, M Xie, Z Li, C Wu, H Zhao, J Wang… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis as an advanced oxidation process has been widely used in the fields of
energy and environmental restoration. However, the reaction efficiency of photocatalysis is …

[HTML][HTML] Piezoelectricity activates persulfate for water treatment: A perspective

Z Li, S Lan, M Zhu - Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 2024 - Elsevier
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) utilizing persulfate (PS) offer great potential for
wastewater treatment. Yet, the dependency on energy and chemical-intensive activation …

BiFeO3 Nanoparticles: The “Holy‐Grail” of Piezo‐Photocatalysts?

W Amdouni, M Fricaudet, M Otoničar… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, piezoelectric‐based catalysis has been demonstrated to be an efficient means
and promising alternative to sunlight‐driven photocatalysis, where mechanical vibrations …

Ferroelectricity and Schottky Heterojunction Engineering in AgNbO3: A Simultaneous Way of Boosting Piezo-photocatalytic Activity

Y Zhang, N Luo, D Zeng, C Xu, L Ma… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
As an efficient and economical way of dealing with organic pollutants, piezo-photocatalysis
has attracted great interest. In this work, we demonstrated that ferroelectricity and Schottky …

Highly-efficient photocatalytic activity of TiO2-AC nanocomposites for hydrogen production from sulphide wastewater

S Sekar, V Preethi, VS Srivishnu, S Saravanan… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic water splitting is one of the prospective green energy technologies,
particularly, for hydrogen production from wastewater under natural sunlight irradiation …

Coupled ferroelectric polarization in novelty Sillén–Aurivillius BaBi4TiNbO11Cl material for photocatalysis

S Xu, Y Zhang, Y Wang, J Chen, C Zhou, Z Mu… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of efficient and stable photocatalysts is of great significance for tailoring
energy crisis and environmental pollution. In this study, novelty Sillén-Aurivillius BaBi 4 …

Wastewater decontamination via piezoelectric based technologies: Materials design, applications and prospects

Y Bao, K Xiao, S Yue, M Zhang, X Du, J Wang… - Surfaces and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric effect has been widely applied for energy harvesting via constructing nano
energy generator in piezoelectric materials, while its application in water treatment is …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic barium titanate/MXene composite as a high-performance piezo-photocatalyst for efficient dye degradation

L Meng, L Zhou, C Liu, H Jia, Y Lu, D Ji, T Liang… - Journal of colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Piezo-photocatalysis combines photocatalysis and piezoelectric effects to enhance catalytic
efficiency by creating an internal electric field in the photocatalyst, improving carrier …

Effective photodegradation of organic water pollutants by the facile synthesis of Ag2O nanoparticles

P Karthik, S Ravichandran, V Sasikala, N Prakash… - Surfaces and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, Ag 2 O nanoparticles were synthesized using a low-cost precipitation method.
The synthesized nanomaterials are characterized by XRD, FTIR, XPS, Photoluminescence …

Self-propelled nanojets an interfacial Schottky junctions modulated oxygen vacancies enriched for enhanced photo-Fenton degradation of organic contaminant …

S Balasurya, MK Okla, H AbdElgawad, AA Al-Ghamdi… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The study reports an innovative approach on sunlit driven heterostructure photocatalytic
generation of H 2 O 2 and removal of cefixime. In the present work, we have fabricated …