Polymer photocatalysts for solar-to-chemical energy conversion

T Banerjee, F Podjaski, J Kröger, BP Biswal… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Solar-to-chemical energy conversion for the generation of high-energy chemicals is one of
the most viable solutions to the quest for sustainable energy resources. Although long …

Particulate photocatalysts for light-driven water splitting: mechanisms, challenges, and design strategies

Q Wang, K Domen - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven water splitting provides a leading approach to store the abundant yet
intermittent solar energy and produce hydrogen as a clean and sustainable energy carrier. A …

Electro-and solar-driven fuel synthesis with first row transition metal complexes

KE Dalle, J Warnan, JJ Leung, B Reuillard… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of renewable fuels from abundant water or the greenhouse gas CO2 is a
major step toward creating sustainable and scalable energy storage technologies. In the last …

Functional carbon nitride materials—design strategies for electrochemical devices

FK Kessler, Y Zheng, D Schwarz… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
In the past decade, research in the field of artificial photosynthesis has shifted from simple,
inorganic semiconductors to more abundant, polymeric materials. For example, polymeric …

Molecular engineering of polymeric carbon nitride: advancing applications from photocatalysis to biosensing and more

Z Zhou, Y Zhang, Y Shen, S Liu, Y Zhang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
As a promising two-dimensional (2D) conjugated polymer, polymeric carbon nitride (CN) is
attracting dramatically increasing interest due to its unusual properties, facile synthesis from …

Graphitic Carbon Nitride (gC3N4)-Based Photocatalysts for Artificial Photosynthesis and Environmental Remediation: Are We a Step Closer To Achieving …

WJ Ong, LL Tan, YH Ng, ST Yong, SP Chai - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
As a fascinating conjugated polymer, graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has become a new
research hotspot and drawn broad interdisciplinary attention as a metal-free and visible-light …

Interfacing nature's catalytic machinery with synthetic materials for semi-artificial photosynthesis

N Kornienko, JZ Zhang, KK Sakimoto, P Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Semi-artificial photosynthetic systems aim to overcome the limitations of natural and artificial
photosynthesis while providing an opportunity to investigate their respective functionality …

Recent development in graphitic carbon nitride based photocatalysis for hydrogen generation

MS Nasir, G Yang, I Ayub, S Wang, L Wang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The future energy crisis and environmental degradation can only mitigate by harvesting
solar energy into renewable, safe, economical and clean technology like water splitting. The …

Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion

X Fang, S Kalathil, E Reisner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents a comprehensive summary of the recent development in semi-artificial
photosynthesis, a biological-material hybrid approach to solar-to-chemical conversion that …

Carbon dots as photosensitisers for solar-driven catalysis

GAM Hutton, BCM Martindale, E Reisner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Artificial photosynthesis is the mimicry of the natural process of solar energy conversion into
chemical energy carriers. Photocatalytic systems that combine light-harvesting materials and …