Two-dimensional materials in semiconductor photoelectrocatalytic systems for water splitting

M Faraji, M Yousefi, S Yousefzadeh, M Zirak… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen (H2) production via solar water splitting is one of the most ideal strategies for
providing sustainable fuel because this requires only water and sunlight. In achieving high …

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 …

SnP3: A Previously Unexplored Two-Dimensional Material

B Ghosh, S Puri, A Agarwal… - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We predict SnP3 to be an easily exfoliable and dynamically stable two-dimensional (2D)
material with thickness-dependent electronic properties. On the basis of density functional …

Cu dimer anchored on C 2 N monolayer: low-cost and efficient Bi-atom catalyst for CO oxidation

F Li, Z Chen - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
By means of density functional theory (DFT) computations, we systemically investigated
CO/O2 adsorption and CO oxidation pathways on a bi-atom catalyst, namely, a copper dimer …

Two-dimensional H-TiO2/MoS2 (WS2) van der Waals heterostructures for visible-light photocatalysis and energy conversion

WZ Xiao, L Xu, QY Rong, XY Dai, CP Cheng… - Applied Surface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) has promising applications in photocatalysis and energy-
conversion devices due to its low cost, outstanding conductivity, and excellent …

Silicon and phosphorus Co-doped bipyridine-linked covalent triazine framework as a promising metal-free catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction: a theoretical …

B Ball, C Chakravarty, P Sarkar - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic water spliting is the most attractive route for hydrogen production, but the
development of nonprecious, stable, and high-performance catalysts for hydrogen evolution …

Theoretical Studies on the Electronic and Optical Properties of Honeycomb BC3 monolayer: A Promising Candidate for Metal-free Photocatalysts

H Zhang, Y Liao, G Yang, X Zhou - ACS omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
By employing first-principles computations and particle-swarm optimization calculations, we
theoretically confirmed the honeycomb geometry of experimentally realized BC3 sheet …

Electronic and optical properties of a novel two-dimensional semiconductor material TlPt 2 S 3: a first-principles study

X Yang, Y Shen, J Liu, X Meng, X Gao, L Lv… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted widespread attention due to their unique
physical and chemical properties. Here, by using density functional theory calculations, we …

Understanding the different diffusion mechanisms of hydrated protons and potassium ions in titanium carbide MXene

J Wen, Q Fu, W Wu, H Gao, X Zhang… - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The high intercalation capacitance of MXenes is attractive, but their performance as
electrodes in supercapacitors is limited by mass transport when increasing the thickness …

Two-dimensional monolayer and its fluorinated derivative with promising electronic and optical properties: A theoretical study

M Kar, R Sarkar, S Pal, P Sarkar - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
In this article, we propose a new two-dimensional CP 3 material with distinguished
properties from comprehensive first-principles calculations. It has excellent thermal …