Advances in the strategies for enhancing the photocatalytic activity of TiO2: Conversion from UV-light active to visible-light active photocatalyst

I Arora, H Chawla, A Chandra, S Sagadevan… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advanced oxidation process, a green method in contribution to betterment in environment
has been emerged to a larger scale in past decades. Conventional wastewater strategies …

Design, fabrication, and mechanism of nitrogen‐doped graphene‐based photocatalyst

C Bie, H Yu, B Cheng, W Ho, J Fan, J Yu - Advanced materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Solving energy and environmental problems through solar‐driven photocatalysis is an
attractive and challenging topic. Hence, various types of photocatalysts have been …

Advances in Defect Engineering of Metal Oxides for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

K Zhong, P Sun, H Xu - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalytic CO2 reduction technology, capable of converting low‐density solar energy
into high‐density chemical energy, stands as a promising approach to alleviate the energy …

Recent developments, advances and strategies in heterogeneous photocatalysts for water splitting

M Sohail, S Rauf, M Irfan, A Hayat, MM Alghamdi… - Nanoscale …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalytic water splitting (PWS) is an up-and-coming technology for generating
sustainable fuel using light energy. Significant progress has been made in the develo** of …

Defect engineering in photocatalytic materials

S Bai, N Zhang, C Gao, Y **ong - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Defect engineering in photocatalytic materials has been proven as a versatile approach to
maneuver their performance in solar-to-chemical energy conversion. In this article, the state …

Increasing oxide reducibility: the role of metal/oxide interfaces in the formation of oxygen vacancies

A Ruiz Puigdollers, P Schlexer, S Tosoni… - Acs …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Reducibility is an essential characteristic of oxide catalysts in oxidation reactions following
the Mars–van Krevelen mechanism. A typical descriptor of the reducibility of an oxide is the …

Nitrogen-doped Ti3C2Tx MXene electrodes for high-performance supercapacitors

Y Wen, TE Rufford, X Chen, N Li, M Lyu, L Dai, L Wang - Nano energy, 2017 - Elsevier
A new type of nitrogen-doped two-dimensional MXene (N-Ti 3 C 2 T x) was synthesized by
post-etch annealing Ti 3 C 2 T x in ammonia as a promising electrode material for …

Ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics investigations on the excited carriers in condensed matter systems

Q Zheng, W Chu, C Zhao, L Zhang… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charge carriers in condensed matter systems play an
important role in optoelectronics and solar energy conversion. Yet it is challenging to …

[HTML][HTML] Visible-light activation of TiO2 photocatalysts: Advances in theory and experiments

V Etacheri, C Di Valentin, J Schneider… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The remarkable achievement by Fujishima and Honda (1972) in the photo-electrochemical
water splitting results in the extensive use of TiO 2 nanomaterials for environmental …

Understanding TiO2 Photocatalysis: Mechanisms and Materials

J Schneider, M Matsuoka, M Takeuchi, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Environmental pollution and destruction as well as the lack of sufficient clean and natural
energy resources are some of the most serious problems presently faced on a global scale …