Emerging trends of electrocatalytic technologies for renewable hydrogen energy from seawater: Recent advances, challenges, and techno-feasible assessment

OF Aldosari, I Hussain, Z Malaibari - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogen has been regarded as a promising renewable and green energy source to meet
energy needs and attain net-zero carbon emissions. The electrolysis of seawater to make …

Recent progress on two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures for photocatalytic water splitting: a selective review

C Zhang, K Ren, S Wang, Y Luo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting is being developed swiftly to
address the ongoing energy crisis. Over the past decade, with the rise of graphene and …

Plasma-induced hierarchical amorphous carbon nitride nanostructure with two N2 C-site vacancies for photocatalytic H2O2 production

Y Zheng, Y Luo, Q Ruan, S Wang, J Yu, X Guo… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon nitride (CN) with nitrogen vacancy is a robust photocatalyst with proven enhancing
H 2 O 2 production ability. However, nitrogen vacancy control is extremely challenging with …

Electronic and optical properties of van der Waals heterostructures of g-GaN and transition metal dichalcogenides

Z Cui, K Ren, Y Zhao, X Wang, H Shu, J Yu… - Applied Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on first-principles calculations, we systematically investigate the electronic and
optical properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures composed of graphene-like …

A type-II GaSe/HfS2 van der Waals heterostructure as promising photocatalyst with high carrier mobility

MM Obeid, A Bafekry, SU Rehman, CV Nguyen - Applied Surface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the electronic, optical, and photocatalytic properties of GaSe/HfS 2
heterostructure are studied via first-principles calculations. The stability of the vertically …

A direct Z-scheme PtS 2/arsenene van der Waals heterostructure with high photocatalytic water splitting efficiency

K Ren, W Tang, M Sun, Y Cai, Y Cheng, G Zhang - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
To overcome current serious energy and environmental issues, photocatalytic water splitting
holds great promise because it requires only solar energy as an energy input to produce …

First-principles study on transition-metal dichalcogenide/BSe van der Waals heterostructures: a promising water-splitting photocatalyst

Y Luo, K Ren, S Wang, JP Chou, J Yu… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Recent investigations have revealed that some transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs),
such as MoS2 and WS2, are excellent candidates for high-efficiency photocatalysts for water …

Two-dimensional layered materials: high-efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction

Q Zhu, Y Qu, D Liu, KW Ng, H Pan - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen production via water splitting is considered to be one of the most promising
technologies in the future hydrogen economy, where the critical challenge in this technology …

High solar-to-hydrogen efficiency in Arsenene/GaX (X= S, Se) van der Waals heterostructure for photocatalytic water splitting

J Li, Z Huang, W Ke, J Yu, K Ren, Z Dong - Journal of Alloys and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Using two-dimensional (2D) materials as photocatalyst for water splitting become a
considerable technology for green and clean energy, where the candidate photocatalysts …

2D MXene nanomaterials as electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER): A review

SG Peera, R Koutavarapu, L Chao, L Singh… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
MXenes, a novel family of 2D transition metal carbide, nitride and carbonitride materials,
have been gaining tremendous interest in recent days as potential electrocatalysts for …