Particulate photocatalysts for light-driven water splitting: mechanisms, challenges, and design strategies

Q Wang, K Domen - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven water splitting provides a leading approach to store the abundant yet
intermittent solar energy and produce hydrogen as a clean and sustainable energy carrier. A …

Fundamentals of TiO2 Photocatalysis: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Challenges

Q Guo, C Zhou, Z Ma, X Yang - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalysis has been widely applied in various areas, such as solar cells, water splitting,
and pollutant degradation. Therefore, the photochemical mechanisms and basic principles …

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 …

Titanium dioxide-based nanomaterials for photocatalytic fuel generations

Y Ma, X Wang, Y Jia, X Chen, H Han, C Li - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nowadays, with the rapid depletion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum oil), the
development of renewable energies based on sufficient energy sources with sustainable …

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 …

Band bending in semiconductors: chemical and physical consequences at surfaces and interfaces

Z Zhang, JT Yates Jr - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
This is the age where the capture of solar energy for useful purposes has gained the
attention of the scientific and engineering world. The use of solar energy for the generation …

Heterophase Polymorph of TiO2 (Anatase, Rutile, Brookite, TiO2 (B)) for Efficient Photocatalyst: Fabrication and Activity

DR Eddy, MD Permana, LK Sakti, GAN Sheha… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
TiO2 exists naturally in three crystalline forms: Anatase, rutile, brookite, and TiO2 (B). These
polymorphs exhibit different properties and consequently different photocatalytic …

Review on Modified TiO2 Photocatalysis under UV/Visible Light: Selected Results and Related Mechanisms on Interfacial Charge Carrier Transfer Dynamics

SG Kumar, LG Devi - The Journal of physical chemistry A, 2011 - ACS Publications
Titania is one of the most widely used benchmark standard photocatalysts in the field of
environmental applications. However, the large band gap of titania and massive …

Selectivity enhancement in heterogeneous photocatalytic transformations

J Kou, C Lu, J Wang, Y Chen, Z Xu, RS Varma - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Photocatalysis has been invariably considered as an unselective process (especially in
water) for a fairly long period of time, and the investigation on selective photocatalysis has …

Charge carrier trap**, recombination and transfer during TiO2 photocatalysis: An overview

R Qian, H Zong, J Schneider, G Zhou, T Zhao, Y Li… - Catalysis Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous photocatalysis mediated by semiconducting TiO 2 has attracted continuous
interest during the past decades and has shown great potentials in environmental …