Recent advances and perspectives for solar-driven water splitting using particulate photocatalysts

X Tao, Y Zhao, S Wang, C Li, R Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The conversion and storage of solar energy to chemical energy via artificial photosynthesis
holds significant potential for optimizing the energy situation and mitigating the global …

Electronic defects in metal oxide photocatalysts

E Pastor, M Sachs, S Selim, JR Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
A deep understanding of defects is essential for the optimization of materials for solar energy
conversion. This is particularly true for metal oxide photo (electro) catalysts, which typically …

[HTML][HTML] Titanium dioxide (TiO₂)-based photocatalyst materials activity enhancement for contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) degradation: In the light of …

CB Anucha, I Altin, E Bacaksiz… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) as a photocatalyst has been ubiquitously studied for environmental
applications. Though, readily available, nontoxic, and environmentally friendly; lower …

Materials for solar-powered water evaporation

F Zhao, Y Guo, X Zhou, W Shi, G Yu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Solar-powered water evaporation—the extraction of vapour from liquid water using solar
energy—provides the basis for the development of eco-friendly and cost-effective freshwater …

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 …

Application of iron-based materials in heterogeneous advanced oxidation processes for wastewater treatment: A review

H Luo, Y Zeng, D He, X Pan - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) can produce a large number of active and non-
selective free inorganic radicals in the reaction, which makes them widely used in …

Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: A Review of Ab Initio Mechanism, Kinetics, and Multiscale Modeling Simulations

Z Kovacic, B Likozar, M Hus - ACS catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Climate change has prompted scientists to search for possible ways of reducing CO2
emissions or even capturing it from the atmosphere. Catalytic reduction of CO2 into value …

Photocatalytic activity improvement and application of UV-TiO2 photocatalysis in textile wastewater treatment: A review

MR Al-Mamun, S Kader, MS Islam… - Journal of Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of textile wastewater using titanium dioxide (TiO 2) photocatalysis has
been started from the last decade and reached attention to the researchers because of its …

Hydrogen Production Using TiO2-Based Photocatalysts: A Comprehensive Review

M Rafique, S Hajra, M Irshad, M Usman, M Imran… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one of the most widely used photocatalysts due to its physical and
chemical properties. In this study, hydrogen energy production using TiO2-and titanate …

[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 …