Vacancy engineering in semiconductor photocatalysts: implications in hydrogen evolution and nitrogen fixation applications

A Kumar, V Krishnan - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It is a well‐known fact that the pronounced photogenerated charge recombination and poor
light absorption are the main bottlenecks of photocatalysis applications. The conventional …

Photocatalysis and perovskite oxide-based materials: a remedy for a clean and sustainable future

M Irshad, Q tul Ain, M Zaman, MZ Aslam, N Kousar… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The massive use of non-renewable energy resources by humankind to fulfill their energy
demands is causing severe environmental issues. Photocatalysis is considered one of the …

Perovskite oxide based materials for energy and environment-oriented photocatalysis

A Kumar, A Kumar, V Krishnan - Acs catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of solar energy to catalyze the photo-driven processes has attracted tremendous
attention from the scientific community because of its great potential to address energy and …

Single-atom catalysts for high-efficiency photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting: Distinctive roles, unique fabrication methods and specific design …

J He, P Liu, R Ran, W Wang, W Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen is regarded as one of the most promising energy carriers because of its
renewable and clean nature. Among various routes to generate hydrogen, solar water …

Enhanced photocatalytic activity of two dimensional ternary nanocomposites of ZnO–Bi2WO6–Ti3C2 MXene under natural sunlight irradiation

V Sharma, A Kumar, A Kumar, V Krishnan - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The design and development of advanced photocatalysts for water purification have
attracted much attention from researchers in recent years. In this context, the two …

Development of MgIn2S4 Microflower-Embedded Exfoliated B-Doped gC3N4 Nanosheets: p–n Heterojunction Photocatalysts toward Photocatalytic Water Reduction and H2O …

L Acharya, G Swain, BP Mishra… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In recent years, designing a highly efficient, cost-effective, and persistent photocatalyst to
annihilate world's major ongoing challenges has been a hot topic in the research …

Two dimensional S-scheme Bi2WO6–TiO2–Ti3C2 nanocomposites for efficient degradation of organic pollutants under natural sunlight

A Kumar, Y Singla, M Sharma, A Bhardwaj, V Krishnan - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials have fascinated the researchers to exploit their
properties including large surface area, ability to act as a support and to form face-to-face …

Tailoring defects in SrTiO 3 by one step nanoarchitectonics for realizing photocatalytic nitrogen fixation in pure water

A Kumar, M Sharma, S Sheoran, S Jaiswal, A Patra… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface contamination of materials by nitrogenous impurities is a major problem that can
bias the quantification of ammonia in photocatalytic N2 fixation reactions. In this work …

Recent progress in perovskite transition metal oxide-based photocatalyst and photoelectrode materials for solar-driven water splitting

P Pattanayak, P Singh, NK Bansal, M Paul… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Being one of the renewable sources of energy, solar energy is considered a green and
sustainable source and hence it can be utilized to generate carbon-free hydrogen via …

Unraveling the structural and morphological stability of oxygen vacancy engineered leaf-templated CaTiO 3 towards photocatalytic H 2 evolution and N 2 fixation …

A Kumar, M Kumar, VN Rao, MV Shankar… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The investigation of the structural and morphological stability of leaf-templated and oxygen
vacancy engineered materials is of great importance along with the detailed study of …