Noble-metal-free multicomponent nanointegration for sustainable energy conversion

H Lu, J Tournet, K Dastafkan, Y Liu, YH Ng… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Global energy and environmental crises are among the most pressing challenges facing
humankind. To overcome these challenges, recent years have seen an upsurge of interest …

Engineering heterogeneous semiconductors for solar water splitting

X Li, J Yu, J Low, Y Fang, J Xiao, X Chen - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a growing interest in the conversion of water and solar energy into clean and
renewable H2 fuels using earth-abundant materials due to the depletion of fossil fuel and its …

Enhanced photoelectrochemical water-splitting performance of semiconductors by surface passivation layers

R Liu, Z Zheng, J Spurgeon, X Yang - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
An important approach for solving the world's sustainable energy challenges is the
conversion of solar energy to chemical fuels. Semiconductors can be used to convert/store …

Water splitting progress in tandem devices: moving photolysis beyond electrolysis

K Zhang, M Ma, P Li, DH Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Water photolysis is a sustainable technology to convert natural solar energy and water into
chemical fuels and is thus considered a thorough solution to the forthcoming energy crises …

One-dimension-based spatially ordered architectures for solar energy conversion

S Liu, ZR Tang, Y Sun, JC Colmenares… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The severe consequences of fossil fuel consumption have resulted in a need for alternative
sustainable sources of energy. Conversion and storage of solar energy via a renewable …

Enabling silicon for solar-fuel production

K Sun, S Shen, Y Liang, PE Burrows, SS Mao… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
After over 150 years of exploiting fossil fuels, nowadays humans are encountering two great
global problems: the increasingly serious environmental pollution and the expected …

Interface engineering for modulation of charge carrier behavior in ZnO photoelectrochemical water splitting

Z Kang, H Si, S Zhang, J Wu, Y Sun… - Advanced functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photoelectrochemical water splitting via consumption of solar energy is considered an
alternative approach to address both fossil resource and global warming issues. On the …

Branched WO3 Nanosheet Array with Layered C3N4 Heterojunctions and CoOx Nanoparticles as a Flexible Photoanode for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water …

Y Hou, F Zuo, AP Dagg, J Liu, P Feng - Advanced materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201401032 transport time and distance for directional face-to-face
migration of photogenerated charge,[14] thus greatly reducing the recombination probability …

Two-dimensional nanosheets for photoelectrochemical water splitting: Possibilities and opportunities

M Zhou, XWD Lou, Y Xie - Nano Today, 2013 - Elsevier
In view of the worldwide energy challenge in the 21st century, the technology of
semiconductor-based photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has received considerable …

Light management with patterned micro‐and nanostructure arrays for photocatalysis, photovoltaics, and optoelectronic and optical devices

W Wang, L Qi - Advanced Functional Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The design and fabrication of patterned micro‐and nanostructure arrays have been
demonstrated to be a powerful strategy toward efficient light management, which is of vital …