Photocatalytic water splitting for solving energy crisis: Myth, Fact or Busted?

KH Ng, SY Lai, CK Cheng, YW Cheng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reaping hydrogen energy by utilising eternal sunlight offers a good fit to the theme of
popularly-hype sustainable and carbon-free energy future. Contrary to that belief, this review …

Plasmonic silver (Ag)-based photocatalysts for H2 production and CO2 conversion: Review, analysis and perspectives

GV Belessiotis, AG Kontos - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review, the most recent developments regarding highly efficient photocatalytic
composites containing plasmonic silver (Ag) are reported, with a detailed description of their …

Co-embedding oxygen vacancy and copper particles into titanium-based oxides (TiO2, BaTiO3, and SrTiO3) nanoassembly for enhanced CO2 photoreduction …

G Yang, J Xiong, M Lu, W Wang, W Li, Z Wen… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic CO 2 reduction into valuable fuel and chemical production has been
regarded as a prospective strategy for tackling with the issues of the increasing of …

Controlled synthesis of Ag-doped CuO nanoparticles as a core with poly (acrylic acid) microgel shell for efficient removal of methylene blue under visible light

S Iqbal, M Javed, A Bahadur, MA Qamar… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
Nowadays, constructing a narrow bandgap nanocomposite photocatalyst that can degrade
contamination under visible light is critical but challenging. In this report, poly (acrylic acid) …

Integrated pn/Schottky junctions for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution upon Cu@ TiO2-Cu2O ternary hybrids with steering charge transfer

P Qiu, J Xiong, M Lu, L Liu, W Li, Z Wen, W Li… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar-driven photocatalytic H 2 evolution could tackle the issue of fossil fuels-triggered
greenhouse gas emission with sustainable clean energy. However, splitting water into …

Fabrication of PANI-TiO2/rGO hybrid composites for enhanced photocatalysis of pollutant removal and hydrogen production

J Ma, J Dai, Y Duan, J Zhang, L Qiang, J Xue - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A hybrid composite material was fabricated by functionalizing rGO surface with TiO 2 and
attaching it to polymerized aniline to obtain a photocatalyst with a very efficient charge …

Heterojunction effect of three-dimensional porous CuFe2O4/CuO for thermal-light excited carriers separation in promoting peroxymonosulfate activation and inhibiting …

J Xin, F Zhang, S Liu, Y Liu, C Han, X Li, C Shao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract CuFe 2 O 4/CuO (CC) heterojunctions with three-dimensional porous structures
were prepared by polymer-assisted freeze-drying as visible light (Vis)-peroxymonosulfate …

Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and ammonia sensitivity of double-heterojunction gC 3 N 4/TiO 2/CuO

L Dai, F Sun, P Fu, H Li - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The performance of semiconductor photocatalysts has been limited by rapid electron–hole
recombination. One strategy to overcome this problem is to construct a heterojunction …

Selectively anchoring Cu(OH)2 and CuO on amine-modified brookite TiO2 for enhanced CO2 photoreduction

Z Chen, L Li, G Cheng - Carbon Letters, 2023 - Springer
Photocatalytic CO2 reduction is a promising approach for reducing CO2 emissions and
achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. In this work, selectively coupling Cu (OH) 2 and CuO …

Steering Multistep Charge Transfer for Highly Selectively Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 into CH4 over Pd/Cu2O/TiO2 Ternary Hybrid

D Li, C Zhou, Z Xie, D Chen, Y Zhou, X Shi, D Jiang… - Solar …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the low charge separation efficiency and high stability of the CO2 molecule,
photoreduction of CO2 into a single multielectron product such as CH4 with a simultaneous …