Akira Fujishima

TL;DR: A facile new method that combines electrospray and hydrothermal treatment is used to prepare mesoporous core-shell TiO(2) spheres with high specific surface areas and high pore volumes, which are an important candidate for use in many photoelectrochemical applications.

TL;DR: The novel α-Fe2O3/TiO2 hierarchical nanostructures, synthesized on FTO through a multi-step hydrothermal process, exhibit enhanced performances in photo-electrochemical water splitting and in the photocatalytic degradation of an organic dye, with respect to pure TiO2 nanotubes.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was found that the efficiency of photocatalytic killing of cancer cells with TiO2 particles under aerial condition was increased by adding superoxide dismutase (SOD).

TL;DR: The SPP‐treated TiO2 exhibits a 300 times higher conversion rate for CO2 reduction under solar light irradiation and a 7.5 times higher removal rate of acetaldehyde under UV light irradation, suggesting the effectiveness of the proposed strategy to enhance the photoactivity of colored wide‐bandgap oxides for energy and environmental applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, photoelectrochemical characterization of semiconducting diamond was carried out in a weakly UV-absorbing aqueous electrolyte using suprabandgap illumination in order to examine the influence of electrochemical oxidative surface treatment on the energetic positions of bandedges.