Recent advances and perspectives for solar-driven water splitting using particulate photocatalysts

X Tao, Y Zhao, S Wang, C Li, R Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The conversion and storage of solar energy to chemical energy via artificial photosynthesis
holds significant potential for optimizing the energy situation and mitigating the global …

Enabling internal electric fields to enhance energy and environmental catalysis

L Chen, JT Ren, ZY Yuan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in exploiting advanced photo‐
/electrocatalysts for efficient energy conversion and environmental remediation …

Semiconducting polymers for oxygen evolution reaction under light illumination

Y Fang, Y Hou, X Fu, X Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sunlight-driven water splitting to produce hydrogen fuel has stimulated intensive scientific
interest, as this technology has the potential to revolutionize fossil fuel-based energy …

Unveiling the charge transfer dynamics steered by built-in electric fields in BiOBr photocatalysts

Z Luo, X Ye, S Zhang, S Xue, C Yang, Y Hou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Construction of internal electric fields (IEFs) is crucial to realize efficient charge separation
for charge-induced redox reactions, such as water splitting and CO2 reduction. However, a …

[HTML][HTML] Hollow semiconductor photocatalysts for solar energy conversion

B Fang, Z **ng, D Sun, Z Li, W Zhou - Advanced Powder Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of high-efficient photocatalysts plays an important role in the sustainable
utilization of solar energy. Hollow nanostructured photocatalysts are vital for solar light …

Synergy of ferroelectric polarization and oxygen vacancy to promote CO2 photoreduction

H Yu, F Chen, X Li, H Huang, Q Zhang, S Su… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Solar-light driven CO2 reduction into value-added chemicals and fuels emerges as a
significant approach for CO2 conversion. However, inefficient electron-hole separation and …

Rational Design of Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Prospects

J Wang, Y Shi, Y Wang, Z Li - ACS Energy Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metal halide perovskite nanocrystals (MHP NCs) have attracted much scientific interest in
photocatalysis. Various types of MHP photocatalysts have been intensively explored in …

A crystalline carbon nitride based near‐infrared active photocatalyst

B Zhai, H Li, G Gao, Y Wang, P Niu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient utilization of near‐infrared (NIR) light that takes a primary percentage of the solar
spectrum is of great significance for practical applications of photocatalysis. However …

Perovskite oxide based materials for energy and environment-oriented photocatalysis

A Kumar, A Kumar, V Krishnan - Acs catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of solar energy to catalyze the photo-driven processes has attracted tremendous
attention from the scientific community because of its great potential to address energy and …

Atomic‐level charge separation strategies in semiconductor‐based photocatalysts

F Chen, T Ma, T Zhang, Y Zhang… - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor‐based photocatalysis as a productive technology furnishes a prospective
solution to environmental and renewable energy issues, but its efficiency greatly relies on …