Progress and perspectives in photo‐and electrochemical‐oxidation of biomass for sustainable chemicals and hydrogen production

H Luo, J Barrio, N Sunny, A Li, L Steier… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biomass is recognized as an ideal CO2 neutral, abundant, and renewable resource
substitute to fossil fuels. The rich proton content in most biomass derived materials, such as …

A review of methanol photoreforming: elucidating the mechanisms, photocatalysts and recent advancement strategies

L Chang, ST Yong, SP Chai, LK Putri, LL Tan… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
Methanol photoreforming is an emerging and promising technology in harnessing solar
energy to produce hydrogen as well as value-added by-products including formaldehyde …

Enhanced Photoelectrocatalytic Activities for CH3OH‐to‐HCHO Conversion on Fe2O3/MoO3: Fe‐O‐Mo Covalency Dominates the Intrinsic Activity

S Huang, T Ouyang, BF Zheng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The catalytic conversion of alcohols under mild conditions is a great challenge because it is
constrained by low selectivity and low activity. Herein, we demonstrate a hollow nanotube …

Enhanced cocatalyst-support interaction and promoted electron transfer of 3D porous g-C3N4/GO-M (Au, Pd, Pt) composite catalysts for hydrogen evolution

W Li, X Chu, F Wang, Y Dang, X Liu, X Wang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic hydrogen production is regarded as an ideal strategy to solve energy issues.
Graphene phase carbon nitrogen compound (gC 3 N 4) is commonly used to prepare …

Inhibition of H2 and O2 Recombination: The Key to a Most Efficient Single‐Atom Co‐Catalyst for Photocatalytic H2 Evolution from Plain Water

I Hwang, A Mazare, J Will, T Yokosawa… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the present work, it is shown that anodic TiO2 nanotubes (NTs) can be decorated with Pt,
Pd, Rh, and Au single atoms (SAs) by a simple “dark deposition” approach. Such TiO2 NTs …

Synergistic surface activation during photocatalysis on perovskite derivative sites in heterojunction

Y Yang, Z Chen, H Huang, Y Liu, J Zou, S Shen… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Halide perovskites and derivatives have been used as emerging photocatalysts due to their
unique optoelectronic and structural diversity. However, compared with the well-explored …

A maze in plastic wastes: autonomous motile photocatalytic microrobots against microplastics

SM Beladi-Mousavi, S Hermanova, Y Ying… - … applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
An extremely high quantity of small pieces of synthetic polymers, namely, microplastics, has
been recently identified in some of the most intact natural environments, eg, on top of the …

Subsurface oxygen defects electronically interacting with active sites on In2O3 for enhanced photothermocatalytic CO2 reduction

W Wei, Z Wei, R Li, Z Li, R Shi, S Ouyang, Y Qi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Oxygen defects play an important role in many catalytic reactions. Increasing surface oxygen
defects can be done through reduction treatment. However, excessive reduction blocks …

Size and Coverage Effects of Ni and Pt Co-Catalysts in the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Methanol on TiO2(110)

M Eder, C Courtois, P Petzoldt, S Mackewicz… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, hydrogen evolution from photocatalytic alcohol oxidation on metal-
loaded TiO2 has emerged as an active research field. While the presence of a metal cluster …

Understanding Methanol Synthesis on Inverse ZnO/CuOx/Cu Catalysts: Stability of CH3O Species and Dynamic Nature of the Surface

I Orozco, E Huang, M Mahapatra, J Kang… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Inverse ZnO/Cu catalysts are key systems in the conversion of CO2, a common atmospheric
pollutant, into methanol, a high-value chemical and fuel. The chemistry of methanol and …