Recent progress on two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures for photocatalytic water splitting: a selective review

C Zhang, K Ren, S Wang, Y Luo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting is being developed swiftly to
address the ongoing energy crisis. Over the past decade, with the rise of graphene and …

The highly-efficient light-emitting diodes based on transition metal dichalcogenides: from architecture to performance

C Wang, F Yang, Y Gao - Nanoscale Advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with layered architecture and excellent
optoelectronic properties have been a hot spot for light-emitting diodes (LED). However, the …

Electronic and optical properties of van der Waals heterostructures of g-GaN and transition metal dichalcogenides

Z Cui, K Ren, Y Zhao, X Wang, H Shu, J Yu… - Applied Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on first-principles calculations, we systematically investigate the electronic and
optical properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures composed of graphene-like …

A type-II GaSe/HfS2 van der Waals heterostructure as promising photocatalyst with high carrier mobility

MM Obeid, A Bafekry, SU Rehman, CV Nguyen - Applied Surface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the electronic, optical, and photocatalytic properties of GaSe/HfS 2
heterostructure are studied via first-principles calculations. The stability of the vertically …

Rashba spin splitting and photocatalytic properties of (, W) van der Waals heterostructures

HU Din, M Idrees, A Albar, M Shafiq, I Ahmad… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Vertical stacking of ultrathin two-dimensional materials via weak van der Waals (vdW)
interactions is identified as an important technique for tuning the physical properties and …

A direct Z-scheme PtS 2/arsenene van der Waals heterostructure with high photocatalytic water splitting efficiency

K Ren, W Tang, M Sun, Y Cai, Y Cheng, G Zhang - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
To overcome current serious energy and environmental issues, photocatalytic water splitting
holds great promise because it requires only solar energy as an energy input to produce …

High-efficiency photocatalyst for water splitting: a Janus MoSSe/XN (X= Ga, Al) van der Waals heterostructure

K Ren, S Wang, Y Luo, JP Chou, J Yu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures were constructed using MoSSe and
XN (X= Ga, Al) via density functional calculations to serve as water splitting photocatalysts …

Two-dimensional ZnO/BSe van der waals heterostructure used as a promising photocatalyst for water splitting: A DFT study

K Ren, J Yu, W Tang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted considerable focus
because of their charming properties. Using 2D heterostructure as a photocatalyst for water …

Two-dimensional MX 2 Y 4 systems: Ultrahigh carrier transport and excellent hydrogen evolution reaction performances

K Ren, H Shu, K Wang, H Qin - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Very recently, two-dimensional MoSi2N4 has been synthetized (Y.-L. Hong, Z. Liu, L. Wang,
T. Zhou, W. Ma, C. Xu, S. Feng, L. Chen, M.-L. Chen and D.-M. Sun, Chemical vapor …

Intriguing type-II g-GeC/AlN bilayer heterostructure for photocatalytic water decomposition and hydrogen production

N Ferdous, MS Islam, MS Alam, MY Zamil, J Biney… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Adapting two-dimensional (2D) van der Walls bilayer heterostructure is an efficient
technique for realizing fascinating properties and playing a key role in solar energy-driven …