Hydrothermal synthesis of TiO2 nanorods: formation chemistry, growth mechanism, and tailoring of surface properties for photocatalytic activities

T Gupta, J Cho, J Prakash - Materials Today Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) is one of the best semiconductor photocatalysts with optical band
gap of 3.2 eV. The optical band gap and photocatalytic properties could be further tuned by …

Recent progress in material selection and device designs for photoelectrochemical water-splitting

IR Hamdani, AN Bhaskarwar - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of renewable and sustainable energy sources along with efficient storing
strategies has been the focus of utmost importance within the community to address the …

Carbon dots mediated charge sinking effect for boosting hydrogen evolution in Cu-In-Zn-S QDs/MoS2 photocatalysts

Q Chen, Y Liu, X Gu, D Li, D Zhang, D Zhang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Visible-driven photocatalysis plays a critical role in solar energy conversion, but the
efficiency is limited by the poor charge separation and utilization. Here, a ternary …

2D–2D SnS2/Covalent Organic Framework Heterojunction Photocatalysts for Highly Enhanced Solar-Driven Hydrogen Evolution without Cocatalysts

D Shang, D Li, B Chen, B Luo, Y Huang… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a category of promising materials in the field of
solar-driven hydrogen (H2) evolution, but their applications are limited by the speedy …

2D β-NiS as electron harvester anchors on 2D ZnIn2S4 for boosting photocatalytic hydrogen production

L Ding, D Li, H Shen, X Qiao, H Shen, W Shi - Journal of Alloys and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Promoting charge separation and surface redox reactions are crucial to improving hydrogen
production by semiconductor photocatalysis. Therefore, photocatalysts comprised of light …

Carbon-dots-mediated highly efficient hole transfer in I-III-VI quantum dots for photocatalytic hydrogen production

F Li, Y Liu, B Mao, L Li, H Huang, D Zhang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
The extraction of photogenerated holes is of great significance for the improvement of both
the efficiency and stability of photocatalysts. In this work, carbon dots (CDs) were used to …

ZIF-8 derived ZnO/TiO2 heterostructure with rich oxygen vacancies for promoting photoelectrochemical water splitting

Q Ding, D Xu, J Ding, W Fan, X Zhang, Y Li… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the serious recombination of electron-hole and weak photoresponse ability,
achieving highly efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting activity for TiO 2 …

MOF-derived Co 9 S 8 polyhedrons on NiCo 2 S 4 nanowires for high-performance hybrid supercapacitors

Y Liu, Z Ma, H Niu, Q Yang, H Jia, W Shi - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we reasonably designed MOF-derived Co9S8 polyhedrons coated on NiCo2S4
nanowire composites for high performance hybrid supercapacitors. The NiCo2S4 nanowires …

Efficient MOF-derived V–Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays for electrocatalytic overall water splitting in alkali

W Dong, H Zhou, B Mao, Z Zhang, Y Liu, Y Liu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The synergistic achievement of low-cost earth-abundant electrocatalysts and high efficiency
to meet renewable energy need is highly desirable yet challenging. Here, we developed a …

Amorphous iron (III)-borate decorated electrochemically treated-BiVO4 photoanode for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

H Xu, W Fan, Y Zhao, B Chen, Y Gao, X Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
BiVO 4 has attracted widespread attention as a promising semiconductor material for recent
year. However, poor water oxidation kinetics and severe surface charge recombination are …