Z‐scheme photocatalytic systems for solar water splitting

BJ Ng, LK Putri, XY Kong, YW Teh… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As the world decides on the next giant step for the renewable energy revolution, scientists
have begun to reinforce their headlong dives into the exploitation of solar energy. Hitherto …

Interfacial engineering of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)-based metal sulfide heterojunction photocatalysts for energy conversion: a review

Y Ren, D Zeng, WJ Ong - Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2019 - Elsevier
As one of the most appealing and attractive technologies, photocatalysis is widely used as a
promising method to circumvent the environmental and energy problems. Due to its …

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 …

Bio-photoelectrochemical degradation, and photocatalysis process by the fabrication of copper oxide/zinc cadmium sulfide heterojunction nanocomposites …

C Lei, N Sun, H Wu, Y Zhao, C Yu, BJ Janani, A Fakhri - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, the fabrication of the CuO on ZnCdS as a heterojunction nanocomposites were
conducted by hydrothermal method and the synthesis method was confirmed by the XRD …

Unravelling charge carrier dynamics in protonated gC3N4 interfaced with carbon nanodots as co-catalysts toward enhanced photocatalytic CO2 reduction: A …

WJ Ong, LK Putri, YC Tan, LL Tan, N Li, YH Ng, X Wen… - Nano Research, 2017 - Springer
In this work, we demonstrated the successful construction of metal-free zerodimensional/two-
dimensional carbon nanodot (CND)-hybridized protonated gC 3 N 4 (pCN)(CND/pCN) …

Surface charge modification via protonation of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) for electrostatic self-assembly construction of 2D/2D reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/g …

WJ Ong, LL Tan, SP Chai, ST Yong, AR Mohamed - Nano Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, we reported a 2D/2D hybrid heterojunction photocatalyst with effective
interfacial contact by incorporating reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and protonated gC 3 N 4 …

Carbon‐based metal‐free catalysts for energy storage and environmental remediation

C Hu, Y Lin, JW Connell, HM Cheng… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their high earth‐abundance, eco‐friendliness, high electrical conductivity, large
surface area, structure tunability at the atomic/morphological levels, and excellent stability in …

Graphene oxide as a structure-directing agent for the two-dimensional interface engineering of sandwich-like graphene–gC 3 N 4 hybrid nanostructures with …

WJ Ong, LL Tan, SP Chai, ST Yong - Chemical Communications, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A facile one-pot impregnation–thermal reduction strategy was employed to fabricate
sandwich-like graphene–g-C3N4 (GCN) nanocomposites using urea and graphene oxide …

Heterojunction engineering of graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N 4) via Pt loading with improved daylight-induced photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to methane

WJ Ong, LL Tan, SP Chai, ST Yong - Dalton Transactions, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, noble-metal Pt nanoparticles of around 2.5 nm were deposited on graphitic
carbon nitride (g-C3N4) synthesized by a chemical reduction process in ethylene glycol …

Solar‐inspired water purification based on emerging 2D materials: status and challenges

Z **e, YP Peng, L Yu, C **ng, M Qiu, J Hu, H Zhang - Solar Rrl, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Water shortage and the energy crisis are two major global challenges in this century. The
solution for water crisis should be based on a sustainable energy source. Solar‐inspired …