Photocatalysis with Reduced TiO2: From Black TiO2 to Cocatalyst-Free Hydrogen Production

A Naldoni, M Altomare, G Zoppellaro, N Liu… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Black TiO2 nanomaterials have recently emerged as promising candidates for solar-driven
photocatalytic hydrogen production. Despite the great efforts to synthesize highly reduced …

Charge Carrier Processes and Optical Properties in TiO2 and TiO2-Based Heterojunction Photocatalysts: A Review

S Lettieri, M Pavone, A Fioravanti, L Santamaria Amato… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photocatalysis based technologies have a key role in addressing important challenges of
the ecological transition, such as environment remediation and conversion of renewable …

Black TiO2: A review of its properties and conflicting trends

TS Rajaraman, SP Parikh, VG Gandhi - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Black titanium dioxide (TiO 2) has been one of the most researched photocatalyst in recent
years. Its ability to overcome the limitations of pristine TiO 2 through enhanced visible light …

Electrolyte-assisted polarization leading to enhanced charge separation and solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of seawater splitting

Y Li, H Zhou, S Cai, D Prabhakaran, W Niu, A Large… - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
Photocatalytic splitting of seawater for hydrogen evolution has attracted a great deal of
attention in recent years. However, the poor energy conversion efficiency and stability of …

Rh single atoms on TiO2 dynamically respond to reaction conditions by adapting their site

Y Tang, C Asokan, M Xu, GW Graham, X Pan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts are widely investigated heterogeneous catalysts; however, the
identification of the local environment of single atoms under experimental conditions, as well …

Identification of surface reactivity descriptor for transition metal oxides in oxygen evolution reaction

HB Tao, L Fang, J Chen, HB Yang, J Gao… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A number of important reactions such as the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are catalyzed
by transition metal oxides (TMOs), the surface reactivity of which is rather elusive. Therefore …

Facet-dependent trap** and dynamics of excess electrons at anatase TiO2 surfaces and aqueous interfaces

S Selcuk, A Selloni - Nature Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Excess electrons from intrinsic defects, dopants and photoexcitation play a key role in many
of the properties of TiO2. Understanding their behaviour is important for improving the …

Direct View at Excess Electrons in Rutile and Anatase

M Setvin, C Franchini, X Hao, M Schmid, A Janotti… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
A combination of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy and density functional
theory is used to characterize excess electrons in TiO 2 rutile and anatase, two prototypical …

Theoretical Studies on Anatase and Less Common TiO2 Phases: Bulk, Surfaces, and Nanomaterials

F De Angelis, C Di Valentin, S Fantacci… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Driven by growing concerns for environmental and energy issues, interest in semiconductor-
based heterogeneous photocatalysis has increased considerably over the last decades …

Plasma-photocatalytic conversion of CO2 at low temperatures: Understanding the synergistic effect of plasma-catalysis

D Mei, X Zhu, C Wu, B Ashford, PT Williams… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2016 - Elsevier
A coaxial dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor has been developed for plasma-catalytic
conversion of pure CO 2 into CO and O 2 at low temperatures (< 150° C) and atmospheric …