Photocatalytic water splitting

S Nishioka, FE Osterloh, X Wang, TE Mallouk… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
With the goal of achieving large-scale H2 production from renewable resources, water
splitting into H2 and O2 using semiconductor photocatalysts (sometimes called artificial …

Cadmium sulfide-based nanomaterials for photocatalytic hydrogen production

YJ Yuan, D Chen, ZT Yu, ZG Zou - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar hydrogen generation via photocatalytic water splitting represents an attractive strategy
to address the global energy crisis and environmental pollution issues. CdS-based …

Visible-light driven heterojunction photocatalysts for water splitting–a critical review

SJA Moniz, SA Shevlin, DJ Martin, ZX Guo… - Energy & Environmental …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar driven catalysis on semiconductors to produce clean chemical fuels, such as
hydrogen, is widely considered as a promising route to mitigate environmental issues …

New Iron‐Cobalt Oxide Catalysts Promoting BiVO4 Films for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

S Wang, T He, JH Yun, Y Hu, M Xiao… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to the sluggish kinetics for water oxidation, severe surface charge recombination is a
major energy loss that hinders efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. Herein, a …

Enhanced Surface Reaction Kinetics and Charge Separation of p–n Heterojunction Co3O4/BiVO4 Photoanodes

X Chang, T Wang, P Zhang, J Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Surface reaction kinetics and bulk charge separation are both critical to the efficiency of
solar water splitting. In addition to the well-documented surface catalytic effect, the …

Tungsten oxide nanostructures and nanocomposites for photoelectrochemical water splitting

G Zheng, J Wang, H Liu, V Murugadoss, G Zu, H Che… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen production from photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting using semiconductor
photocatalysts has attracted great attention to realize clean and renewable energy from …

Promoting active sites in core–shell nanowire array as Mott–Schottky electrocatalysts for efficient and stable overall water splitting

J Hou, Y Sun, Y Wu, S Cao… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Developing earth‐abundant, active, and robust electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution
reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) remains a vital challenge for efficient …

Toward designing semiconductor-semiconductor heterojunctions for photocatalytic applications

L Zhang, M Jaroniec - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Semiconductor photocatalysts show a great potential for environmental and energy-related
applications, however one of the major disadvantages is their relatively low photocatalytic …

Photocatalysis versus photosynthesis: a sensitivity analysis of devices for solar energy conversion and chemical transformations

FE Osterloh - ACS Energy Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
The chemical literature often does not differentiate between photocatalytic (PC) and
photosynthetic (PS) processes (including artificial photosynthesis) even though these …

A core–satellite structured Z-scheme catalyst Cd 0.5 Zn 0.5 S/BiVO 4 for highly efficient and stable photocatalytic water splitting

C Zeng, Y Hu, T Zhang, F Dong, Y Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Fabrication of a Z-scheme photocatalytic system for hydrogen production and overall water
splitting has huge potential in confronting the increasing worldwide energy crisis. But it is …