The route for commercial photoelectrochemical water splitting: a review of large-area devices and key upscaling challenges

A Vilanova, P Dias, T Lopes, A Mendes - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Green-hydrogen is considered a “key player” in the energy market for the upcoming
decades. Among currently available hydrogen (H2) production processes …

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 …

Upcycling of plastic waste using photo-, electro-, and photoelectrocatalytic approaches: a way toward circular economy

D Sajwan, A Sharma, M Sharma, V Krishnan - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Rapid industrialization and development have led to a tremendous increase in the use of
various types of plastic commodities in daily life. For the past several years, plastic pollution …

Synergy of dopants and defects in graphitic carbon nitride with exceptionally modulated band structures for efficient photocatalytic oxygen evolution

D Zhao, CL Dong, B Wang, C Chen… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic structure greatly determines the band structures and the charge carrier transport
properties of semiconducting photocatalysts and consequently their photocatalytic activities …

Transition metal oxides as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline solutions: an application-inspired renaissance

F Song, L Bai, A Moysiadou, S Lee, C Hu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Water splitting is the essential chemical reaction to enable the storage of intermittent
energies such as solar and wind in the form of hydrogen fuel. The oxygen evolution reaction …

Elaborately Modified BiVO4 Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting

JH Kim, JS Lee - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells for solar‐energy conversion have received immense
interest as a promising technology for renewable hydrogen production. Their similarity to …

Rational Catalyst Design for N2 Reduction under Ambient Conditions: Strategies toward Enhanced Conversion Efficiency

L Shi, Y Yin, S Wang, H Sun - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ammonia (NH3), one of the basic chemicals in most fertilizers and a promising carbon-free
energy storage carrier, is typically synthesized via the Haber–Bosch process with high …

Photocatalysis: from fundamental principles to materials and applications

X Yang, D Wang - ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
Photocatalysis represents a unique class of chemical transformations. It utilizes the energy
delivered by light and drives reactions that are difficult, sometimes even impossible, to carry …

Double-defect-induced polarization enhanced OV-BiOBr/Cu2− xS high-low junction for boosted photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution

X Li, Q Liu, F Deng, J Huang, L Han, C He… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to improve the carrier transfer driving force and separation efficiency, O V-BiOBr/Cu
2− x S high-low junction with double defects (Oxygen vacancy and Copper vacancy) was …

Photothermal‐boosted polaron transport in Fe2O3 photoanodes for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

X Hu, J Huang, Y Cao, B He, X Cui, Y Zhu… - Carbon …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction of the photothermal effect into transition‐metal oxide photoanodes has been
proven to be an effective method to improve the photoelectrochemical (PEC) water‐splitting …