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 …

Cocatalysts for Selective Photoreduction of CO2 into Solar Fuels

X Li, J Yu, M Jaroniec, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Photoreduction of CO2 into sustainable and green solar fuels is generally believed to be an
appealing solution to simultaneously overcome both environmental problems and energy …

Electronic defects in metal oxide photocatalysts

E Pastor, M Sachs, S Selim, JR Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
A deep understanding of defects is essential for the optimization of materials for solar energy
conversion. This is particularly true for metal oxide photo (electro) catalysts, which typically …

Toward practical solar hydrogen production–an artificial photosynthetic leaf-to-farm challenge

JH Kim, D Hansora, P Sharma, JW Jang… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar water splitting is a promising approach to transform sunlight into renewable,
sustainable and green hydrogen energy. There are three representative ways of …

Visible-light driven heterojunction photocatalysts for water splitting–a critical review

SJA Moniz, SA Shevlin, DJ Martin, ZX Guo… - Energy & Environmental …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar driven catalysis on semiconductors to produce clean chemical fuels, such as
hydrogen, is widely considered as a promising route to mitigate environmental issues …

Iron-based metal–organic frameworks and their derived materials for photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic reactions

Y Pan, R Abazari, B Tahir, S Sanati, Y Zheng… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis, or photo-electrocatalysis technology, is a clean and renewable energy
conversion method that harnesses solar energy to generate chemical energy, offering an …

A BiVO4 Photoanode with a VOx Layer Bearing Oxygen Vacancies Offers Improved Charge Transfer and Oxygen Evolution Kinetics in Photoelectrochemical Water …

B Liu, X Wang, Y Zhang, L Xu, T Wang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sluggish oxygen evolution kinetics are one of the key limitations of bismuth vanadate
(BiVO4) photoanodes for efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. To address …

Nanoporous BiVO4 Photoanodes with Dual-Layer Oxygen Evolution Catalysts for Solar Water Splitting

TW Kim, KS Choi - Science, 2014 - science.org
Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has a band structure that is well-suited for potential use as a
photoanode in solar water splitting, but it suffers from poor electron-hole separation. Here …

Semiconducting materials for photoelectrochemical energy conversion

K Sivula, R Van De Krol - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
To achieve a sustainable society with an energy mix primarily based on solar energy, we
need methods of storing energy from sunlight as chemical fuels. Photoelectrochemical …

Roles of cocatalysts in photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis

J Yang, D Wang, H Han, CAN Li - Accounts of chemical research, 2013 - ACS Publications
Since the 1970s, splitting water using solar energy has been a focus of great attention as a
possible means for converting solar energy to chemical energy in the form of clean and …