In recent years, heterogeneous photocatalysis using semiconductor and solar energy has
gained a lot of attention owing to its potential applications in many fields such as the …

Photocatalytic water splitting is the environmentally benign artificial photosynthetic pathway
to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen. It provides a great platform for bridging the …

Solar energy is attractive because it is free, renewable, abundant and sustainable.
Photocatalysis is one of the feasible routes to utilize solar energy for the degradation of …

Searching for novel functional materials represents an important direction in the research
and development of renewable energy. Due to their unique structural and compositional …

Driven by functionality and purity demand for applications of inorganic nanoparticle colloids
in optics, biology, and energy, their surface chemistry has become a topic of intensive …

Abstract Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3, BFO) as one of the few single-phase room-temperature
multiferroics, has aroused ever-increasing enthusiasm in research communities during the …

Ferro-, piezo-, and pyroelectric materials are emerging as potential candidates for
converting various forms of primary energy from the ambient environment (eg, sunlight …

The development and utilization of solar energy in environmental remediation and water
splitting is being intensively studied worldwide. During the past few decades, tremendous …

Both localized surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect in noble metal nanostructures and
piezotronic effect in piezoelectric semiconductors have been proven to be effective in …

Recent applications of photoelectrochemistry at the semiconductor/liquid interface provide a
renewable route of mimicking natural photosynthesis and yielding chemicals from sunlight …