Progress and perspectives for solar‐driven water electrolysis to produce green hydrogen

H Zhao, ZY Yuan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven water electrolysis has been considered to be a promising route to produce
green hydrogen, because the conventional water electrolysis system is not completely …

Solar hydrogen

Z Li, S Fang, H Sun, RJ Chung… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen, produced through a zero‐pollution, sustainable, low‐cost, and high‐efficiency
process, is regarded as the “ultimate energy” of the 21st century. Solar water‐splitting …

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 …

Unraveling of cocatalysts photodeposited selectively on facets of BiVO4 to boost solar water splitting

Y Qi, J Zhang, Y Kong, Y Zhao, S Chen, D Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has been widely investigated as a photocatalyst or photoanode
for solar water splitting, but its activity is hindered by inefficient cocatalysts and limited …

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 …

Interfacial engineering of Bi2S3/Ti3C2Tx MXene based on work function for rapid photo-excited bacteria-killing

J Li, Z Li, X Liu, C Li, Y Zheng, KWK Yeung… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In view of increasing drug resistance, ecofriendly photoelectrical materials are promising
alternatives to antibiotics. Here we design an interfacial Schottky junction of Bi2S3/Ti3C2T x …

The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis

S Corby, RR Rao, L Steier, JR Durrant - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Generating charge carriers with lifetimes long enough to drive catalysis is a critical aspect for
photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic systems, and a key determinant of their efficiency …

Progress and perspectives in photo‐and electrochemical‐oxidation of biomass for sustainable chemicals and hydrogen production

H Luo, J Barrio, N Sunny, A Li, L Steier… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biomass is recognized as an ideal CO2 neutral, abundant, and renewable resource
substitute to fossil fuels. The rich proton content in most biomass derived materials, such as …

Tandem cells for unbiased photoelectrochemical water splitting

B Liu, S Wang, G Zhang, Z Gong, B Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen is an essential energy carrier which will address the challenges posed by the
energy crisis and climate change. Photoelectrochemical water splitting (PEC) is an important …

Engineering BiVO4 and Oxygen Evolution Cocatalyst Interfaces with Rapid Hole Extraction for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Y Zhang, L Xu, B Liu, X Wang, T Wang, X **ao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tailoring the oxygen evolution cocatalyst (OEC)/BiVO4 interfaces with a hole transfer layer
(HTL) is expected to suppress the interfacial charge recombination, thus achieving highly …