Photocatalytic water splitting

S Nishioka, FE Osterloh, X Wang, TE Mallouk… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
With the goal of achieving large-scale H2 production from renewable resources, water
splitting into H2 and O2 using semiconductor photocatalysts (sometimes called artificial …

Applications of phosphorene and black phosphorus in energy conversion and storage devices

J Pang, A Bachmatiuk, Y Yin… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The successful isolation of phosphorene (atomic layer thick black phosphorus) in 2014 has
currently aroused the interest of 2D material researchers. In this review, first, the …

Photocatalytic solar hydrogen production from water on a 100-m2 scale

H Nishiyama, T Yamada, M Nakabayashi, Y Maehara… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The unprecedented impact of human activity on Earth's climate and the ongoing increase in
global energy demand have made the development of carbon-neutral energy sources ever …

Photocorrosion inhibition of semiconductor-based photocatalysts: basic principle, current development, and future perspective

B Weng, MY Qi, C Han, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Acs Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a promising strategy for addressing the worldwide
environmental pollution and energy shortage issues. However, unlike TiO2 with good …

Metal-free efficient photocatalyst for stable visible water splitting via a two-electron pathway

J Liu, Y Liu, N Liu, Y Han, X Zhang, H Huang, Y Lifshitz… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The use of solar energy to produce molecular hydrogen and oxygen (H2 and O2) from
overall water splitting is a promising means of renewable energy storage. In the past 40 …

Earth-abundant cocatalysts for semiconductor-based photocatalytic water splitting

J Ran, J Zhang, J Yu, M Jaroniec… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalytic water splitting represents a promising strategy for clean, low-cost, and
environmental-friendly production of H2 by utilizing solar energy. There are three crucial …

Photochemical splitting of water for hydrogen production by photocatalysis: A review

AA Ismail, DW Bahnemann - Solar energy materials and solar cells, 2014 - Elsevier
Hydrogen production from water using a catalyst and solar energy is an ideal future fuel
source. The search for suitable semiconductors as photocatalysts for water splitting into …

Advanced nanoarchitectures for solar photocatalytic applications

A Kubacka, M Fernandez-Garcia, G Colon - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1.1. Scope of the Review Since they were first described in the scientific literature,
photoinduced processes have been studied with a view to develo** several industrially …

Photocatalysts with internal electric fields

L Li, PA Salvador, GS Rohrer - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The photocatalytic activity of materials for water splitting is limited by the recombination of
photogenerated electron–hole pairs as well as the back-reaction of intermediate species …

Semiconductor-based photocatalytic hydrogen generation

X Chen, S Shen, L Guo, SS Mao - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Because of its high energy capacity and environmental friendliness, hydrogen has been
identified as a potential energy carrier in many low greenhouse gas (GHG) energy …