Earth-abundant heterogeneous water oxidation catalysts

BM Hunter, HB Gray, AM Muller - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Water oxidation is a key chemical transformation for the conversion of solar energy into
chemical fuels. Our review focuses on recent work on robust earth-abundant heterogeneous …

Recent advances in BiVO4 semiconductor materials for hydrogen production using photoelectrochemical water splitting

M Tayebi, BK Lee - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Numerous efforts have been made to find, produce and utilize renewable energy to replace
fossil fuels that have seriously degraded the environment. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) …

Photocatalytic materials and technologies for air purification

H Ren, P Koshy, WF Chen, S Qi, CC Sorrell - Journal of hazardous …, 2017 - Elsevier
Since there is increasing concern for the impact of air quality on human health, the present
work surveys the materials and technologies for air purification using photocatalytic …

Recent advances in visible light Bi-based photocatalysts

S Cao, P Zhou, J Yu - Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2014 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis is considered to be an effective solution for the current energy and
environmental crises caused by industrial development. However, the practical application …

Electronic Structure of Monoclinic BiVO4

JK Cooper, S Gul, FM Toma, L Chen… - Chemistry of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A comprehensive approach to understanding the electronic structure of monoclinic scheelite
bismuth vanadate (ms-BiVO4), including both valence band (VB) and conduction band (CB) …

A Front-Illuminated Nanostructured Transparent BiVO4 Photoanode for >2% Efficient Water Splitting.

Y Kuang, Q Jia, H Nishiyama… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - search.ebscohost.com
Appropriate nanostructuring and morphology control significantly improves front illumination
performance and optical properties of a transparent BiVO4 photoanode, with a record high …

Controlled band offsets in ultrathin hematite for enhancing the photoelectrochemical water splitting performance of heterostructured photoanodes

MJ Choi, TL Kim, KS Choi, W Sohn… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Formation of type II heterojunctions is a promising strategy to enhance the
photoelectrochemical performance of water-splitting photoanodes, which has been …

Nanostructured WO3/BiVO4 Photoanodes for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Y Pihosh, I Turkevych, K Mawatari, T Asai, T Hisatomi… - Small, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Nanostructured photoanodes based on well‐separated and vertically oriented WO3
nanorods capped with extremely thin BiVO4 absorber layers are fabricated by the …

Understanding the Role of Vanadium Vacancies in BiVO4 for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation

T Tran-Phu, Z Fusco, I Di Bernardo… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The understanding of recombination of photogenerated electron/hole pairs at defect sites is
a key enabler to develop bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) photoanodes at scale and low cost for …

Al-doped ZnO inverse opal networks as efficient electron collectors in BiVO 4 photoanodes for solar water oxidation

L Zhang, E Reisner, JJ Baumberg - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The short diffusion length of photogenerated charge carriers limits the performance of
photoelectrodes for solar water splitting. To reduce the distance between where the charges …