Engineering 2D materials for photocatalytic water-splitting from a theoretical perspective

M Jakhar, A Kumar, PK Ahluwalia, K Tankeshwar… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Splitting of water with the help of photocatalysts has gained a strong interest in the scientific
community for producing clean energy, thus requiring novel semiconductor materials to …

Emerging black phosphorus analogue nanomaterials for high-performance device applications

W Huang, C Li, L Gao, Y Zhang, Y Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, layered black phosphorus (BP) nanostructures have demonstrated great
potential applications in transistors, optoelectronics and logic devices due to their excellent …

PdSeO3 Monolayer: Promising Inorganic 2D Photocatalyst for Direct Overall Water Splitting Without Using Sacrificial Reagents and Cocatalysts

M Qiao, J Liu, Y Wang, Y Li, Z Chen - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Direct production of H2 from photocatalytic water splitting is a potential solution to
environmental pollution and energy crisis, and tremendous efforts have been made to seek …

qvasp: A flexible toolkit for VASP users in materials simulations

W Yi, G Tang, X Chen, B Yang, X Liu - Computer Physics Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
We have developed a flexible toolkit, named qvasp (quickly use vienna ab-initio simulation
package), to assist users to prepare input files and process output files for Vienna Ab-initio …

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 …

Optical properties and photocatalytic applications of two-dimensional Janus group-III monochalcogenides

A Huang, W Shi, Z Wang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
Photocatalytic water splitting has received much attention for the production of renewable
hydrogen from water, and two-dimensional (2D) materials show great potential for use as …

Solution‐processed GaSe nanoflake‐based films for photoelectrochemical water splitting and photoelectrochemical‐type photodetectors

MI Zappia, G Bianca, S Bellani, M Serri… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gallium selenide (GaSe) is a layered compound, which has been exploited in nonlinear
optical applications and photodetectors due to its anisotropic structure and pseudodirect …

Two-dimensional gallium sulfide nanoflakes for UV-selective photoelectrochemical-type photodetectors

MI Zappia, G Bianca, S Bellani, N Curreli… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal monochalcogenides have been recently predicted to
be potential photo (electro) catalysts for water splitting and photoelectrochemical (PEC) …

High-Throughput computational screening and machine learning modeling of janus 2D III–VI van der waals heterostructures for solar energy applications

B Sa, R Hu, Z Zheng, R Xiong, Y Zhang… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional Janus III–VI monolayers and corresponding van der Waals (vdW)
heterostructures present immense application potential in the solar energy conversion …

Two-dimensional few-layer group-III metal monochalcogenides as effective photocatalysts for overall water splitting in the visible range

Y Cui, L Peng, L Sun, Q Qian, Y Huang - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Using first-principles calculations, the photocatalytic performances of two dimensional (2D)
few-layer group-III metal monochalcogenides MXs (M= Ga, In; X= S, Se) towards overall …