Emergence of Z-Scheme Photocatalysis for Total Water Splitting: An Improvised Route to High Efficiency

A Ghosh, A Pramanik, S Pal… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photocatalytic water splitting to spontaneously produce H2 and O2 is a long-standing goal in
solar energy conversion, presenting a significant challenge without using sacrificial electron …

S-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts based on 2D materials

W Wang, B Cheng, G Luo, J Yu, S Cao - Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
As an emerging photocatalytic system for the use of solar energy, step-scheme (S-scheme)
heterojunction has demonstrated its high efficiency and prospect in the realms of energy …

Unraveling the Transformation from Type-II to Z-Scheme in Perovskite-Based Heterostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

W Song, KC Chong, G Qi, Y Xiao, G Chen… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The ability to create perovskite-based heterostructures with desirable charge transfer
characteristics represents an important endeavor to render a set of perovskite materials and …

Bifunctional Electrocatalytic Activity of Two-Dimensional Metallophthalocyanine-Based Metal–Organic-Frameworks for Overall Water Splitting: A DFT Study

P Das, B Ball, P Sarkar - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
The design of efficient, low-cost, and easily integrable bifunctional electrocatalysts for the
hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is highly desirable …

How the Stacking Pattern Influences the Charge Transfer Dynamics of van der Waals Heterostructures: An Answer from a Time-Domain Ab Initio Study

A Ghosh, B Goswami, S Pal… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Here, we perform a time domain density functional study in conjunction with a non-adiabatic
molecular dynamics (NAMD) simulation to investigate the charge carrier dynamics in a …

Data-driven discovery of intrinsic direct-gap 2D materials as potential photocatalysts for efficient water splitting

Y Wang, G Brocks, S Er - ACS catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Intrinsic direct-gap two-dimensional (2D) materials hold great promise as photocatalysts,
advancing the application of photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production. However …

From indirect to direct and back: Band gap evolution in strained Z-type AlN/B2SSe heterostructures for water splitting

D Fan, M Yin, F Wang, Z Wang, H Li, H Hu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this article, we constructed an AlN/B 2 SSe heterostructure using B 2 SSe and AlN. Using
first-principles calculations, we calculated the stability, electronic structure, optical …

PtTe2/Sb2S3 Nanoscale Heterostructures for the Photocatalytic Direct Z-Scheme with High Solar-to-Hydrogen Efficiency: A Theoretical Investigation

F Wang, CL Yang, MS Wang… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We find that the PtTe2/Sb2S3 nanoscale heterostructure can drive the direct Z-schemes with
high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency (STHE), although the band alignments of the PtTe2 and …

Manipulate photocatalytic overall water splitting performance of the Sc2CCl2/SiSe heterostructure by S impurity: Insight from Gibbs free energy and carrier …

M Liu, CL Yang, X Li, W Zhao, Y Li - Applied Surface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerous photocatalytic hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER and OER) with
heterostructures are reported but have no practicality because the less sophisticated …

Optimizing intrinsic cocatalyst activity and light absorption efficiency for efficient hydrogen evolution of 1D/2D ReS2-CdS photocatalysts via control of ReS2 nanosheet …

GAB Azizar, JW Hong - Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution is extremely important, but the poor charge
transfer capability, a sluggish evolution rate of hydrogen, and severe photo-corrosion make …