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Wuhan University of Technology
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About: Wuhan University of Technology is a education organization based out in Wuhan, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Microstructure & Catalysis. The organization has 40384 authors who have published 36724 publications receiving 575695 citations. The organization is also known as: WUT.
Topics: Microstructure, Catalysis, Photocatalysis, Adsorption, Ceramic
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TL;DR: This work creates a green and simple way for using RGO as a support to enhance the photocatalytic H(2)-production activity of Zn(x)Cd(1-x)S, and demonstrates that RGO is a promising substitute for noble metals in photocatalyst H( 2)-production.
Abstract: Design and preparation of efficient artificial photosynthetic systems for harvesting solar energy by production of hydrogen from water splitting is of great importance from both theoretical and practical viewpoints. ZnS-based solid solutions have been fully proved to be an efficient visible-light driven photocatalysts, however, the H2-production rate observed for these solid solutions is far from exciting and sometimes an expensive Pt cocatalyst is still needed in order to achieve higher quantum efficiency. Here, for the first time we report the high solar photocatalytic H2-production activity over the noble metal-free reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-ZnxCd1–xS nanocomposite prepared by a facile coprecipitation-hydrothermal reduction strategy. The optimized RGO-Zn0.8Cd0.2S photocatalyst has a high H2-production rate of 1824 μmol h–1 g–1 at the RGO content of 0.25 wt % and the apparent quantum efficiency of 23.4% at 420 nm (the energy conversion efficiency is ca. 0.36% at simulated one-sun (AM 1.5G) illuminati...
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TL;DR: A state-of-the-art review of the applications of hierarchically structured porous materials in energy conversion and storage is presented in this paper, where hierarchical porosity and structures have been heavily involved in newly developed energy storage and conversion systems, showing the importance of macrochannels in light related systems such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics.
Abstract: Materials with hierarchical porosity and structures have been heavily involved in newly developed energy storage and conversion systems. Because of meticulous design and ingenious hierarchical structuration of porosities through the mimicking of natural systems, hierarchically structured porous materials can provide large surface areas for reaction, interfacial transport, or dispersion of active sites at different length scales of pores and shorten diffusion paths or reduce diffusion effect. By the incorporation of macroporosity in materials, light harvesting can be enhanced, showing the importance of macrochannels in light related systems such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. A state-of-the-art review of the applications of hierarchically structured porous materials in energy conversion and storage is presented. Their involvement in energy conversion such as in photosynthesis, photocatalytic H 2 production, photocatalysis, or in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and fuel cells (FCs) is discussed. Energy storage technologies such as Li-ions batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage, and solar thermal storage developed based on hierarchically porous materials are then discussed. The links between the hierarchically porous structures and their performances in energy conversion and storage presented can promote the design of the novel structures with advanced properties.
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TL;DR: The results show that after a spontaneous adsorption process g-C3N4 is successfully coated on CdS nanowires with intimate contact and can significantly improve the photocatalytic hydrogen-production rate of C dSnanowires, which reaches an optimal value of up to 4152 μmol h(-1) g(-1).
Abstract: CdS/g-C3N4 core/shell nanowires with different g-C3N4 contents were fabricated by a combined solvothermal and chemisorption method and characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electronic microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and UV–vis diffuse reflection spectroscopy. The photocatalytic hydrogen-production activities of these samples were evaluated using Na2S and Na2SO3 as sacrificial reagents in water under visible-light illumination (λ ≥ 420 nm). The results show that after a spontaneous adsorption process g-C3N4 is successfully coated on CdS nanowires with intimate contact and can significantly improve the photocatalytic hydrogen-production rate of CdS nanowires, which reaches an optimal value of up to 4152 μmol h–1 g–1 at the g-C3N4 content of 2 wt %. More importantly, g-C3N4 coating can substantially reinforce the photostability of CdS nanowires even in a nonsacrificial system. The synergic effect between g-C3N4 and CdS, which can effectively accelerate the charge separation and tr...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the application of photocatalytic degradation and the antibacterial properties of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomaterials is reviewed, and the main methods that improve antibacterial activities are coating inorganic or organic antimicrobial agents, doping ZnO, and tuning the size, morphological characteristics, and concentration of ZnOs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a visible-light-driven plasmonic photocatalyst was proposed for photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange in water and stability by depositing AgCl nanoparticles (NPs) into the self-organized TiO2 nanotube arrays.
Abstract: Conventional TiO2 photocatalyst possesses excellent activities and stabilities, but requires near-ultraviolet (UV) irradiation (about 4% of the solar spectrum) for effective photocatalysis, thereby severely limiting its practical application. It is highly desirable to develop a photocatalyst that can use visible light in high efficiency under sunlight irradiation. In this work, we prepare new visible-light-driven plasmonic photocatalyst Ag/AgCl/TiO2 nanotube arrays (NTs) by depositing AgCl nanoparticles (NPs) into the self-organized TiO2 NTs, and then reducing partial Ag+ ions in the surface region of the AgCl particles to Ag0 species under xenon lamp irradiation. The prepared metal−semiconductor nanocomposite plasmonic photocatalyst exhibits a highly visible-light photocatalytic activity for photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange in water and stability. A new plasmonic photocatalytic mechanism, which is proposed on the basis of the fact that the Ag NPs are photoexcited due to plasmon resonance and c...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Jiaguo Yu | 178 | 730 | 113300 |
Charles M. Lieber | 165 | 521 | 132811 |
Dongyuan Zhao | 160 | 872 | 106451 |
Yu Huang | 136 | 1492 | 89209 |
Han Zhang | 130 | 970 | 58863 |
Chao Zhang | 127 | 3119 | 84711 |
Bo Wang | 119 | 2905 | 84863 |
Jianjun Liu | 112 | 1040 | 71032 |
Hong Wang | 110 | 1633 | 51811 |
Jimmy C. Yu | 108 | 350 | 36736 |
Søren Nielsen | 105 | 806 | 45995 |
Liqiang Mai | 104 | 616 | 39558 |
Bei Cheng | 104 | 260 | 33672 |
Feng Li | 104 | 995 | 60692 |
Qi Li | 102 | 1563 | 46762 |