[HTML][HTML] Why five decades of massive research on heterogeneous photocatalysis, especially on TiO2, has not yet driven to water disinfection and detoxification …

JA Rengifo-Herrera, C Pulgarin - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
For fifty years, heterogeneous photocatalysis has been considered as having potential to
remove organic and microbiological pollutants from water under either artificial UV light or …

Generation and detection of reactive oxygen species in photocatalysis

Y Nosaka, AY Nosaka - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The detection methods and generation mechanisms of the intrinsic reactive oxygen species
(ROS), ie, superoxide anion radical (• O2–), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), singlet oxygen …

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 composites: strategies for enhancing charge carrier separation to improve photocatalytic activity

R Marschall - Advanced Functional Materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The formation of semiconductor composites comprising multicomponent or multiphase
heterojunctions is a very effective strategy to design highly active photocatalyst systems …

Band alignment of rutile and anatase TiO2

DO Scanlon, CW Dunnill, J Buckeridge, SA Shevlin… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
The most widely used oxide for photocatalytic applications owing to its low cost and high
activity is TiO2. The discovery of the photolysis of water on the surface of TiO2 in 1972 …

Advanced nanoarchitectures for solar photocatalytic applications

A Kubacka, M Fernandez-Garcia, G Colon - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1.1. Scope of the Review Since they were first described in the scientific literature,
photoinduced processes have been studied with a view to develo** several industrially …

Do** of TiO 2 for sensitized solar cells

B Roose, S Pathak, U Steiner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This review gives a detailed summary and evaluation of the use of TiO2 do** to improve
the performance of dye sensitized solar cells. Do** has a major effect on the band …

Review of the anatase to rutile phase transformation

DAH Hanaor, CC Sorrell - Journal of Materials science, 2011 - Springer
Titanium dioxide, TiO 2, is an important photocatalytic material that exists as two main
polymorphs, anatase and rutile. The presence of either or both of these phases impacts on …

Semiconductor photocatalysis—mechanistic and synthetic aspects

H Kisch - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Preceding work on photoelectrochemistry at semiconductor single‐crystal electrodes has
formed the basis for the tremendous growth in the three last decades in the field of …

TiO2 Nanoparticles as Functional Building Blocks

L Sang, Y Zhao, C Burda - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
TiO2 has been commercially manufactured by the millions of tons to be widely utilized as
pigment, paint additive, and sunscreen to name a few uses, due to its photostability and light …