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Semiconductor Photocatalysis - Past, Present, and Future Outlook.
Nick Serpone,Alexei V. Emeline +1 more
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Engineering heterogeneous semiconductors for solar water splitting
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review highlights some key factors influencing the efficiency of heterogeneous semiconductors for solar water splitting (i.e. improved charge separation and transfer, promoted optical absorption, optimized band gap position, lowered cost and toxicity, and enhanced stability and water splitting kinetics).
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Graphitic carbon nitride based nanocomposites: a review
TL;DR: The enhanced performance of g-C(3)N(4)-based nanocomposites has been widely employed in environmental and energetic applications such as photocatalytic degradation of pollutants, photoc atalytic hydrogen generation, carbon dioxide reduction, disinfection, and supercapacitors.
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Surface modification and enhanced photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance of TiO2: a review
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the surface modification of TiO2 for photocatalytic CO2 reduction, including impurity doping, metal deposition, alkali modification, heterojunction construction and carbon-based material loading, is presented.
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Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) nanocomposites: A new and exciting generation of visible light driven photocatalysts for environmental pollution remediation
Gcina Mamba,Ajay K. Mishra +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the fundamental aspects of photocatalysis as a pollution remediation strategy is presented, followed by an introduction to graphitic carbon nitride as a photocatalyst, preparation strategies and its properties, and a comprehensive and critical discussion of the various most recent developments towards enhancing the visible light photocatalytic properties of g-C 3 N 4 for pollution alleviation.
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Oxygen-Vacancy-Mediated Exciton Dissociation in BiOBr for Boosting Charge-Carrier-Involved Molecular Oxygen Activation
Hui Wang,Dingyu Yong,Shichuan Chen,Shenlong Jiang,Xiaodong Zhang,Wei Shao,Qun Zhang,Wensheng Yan,Bicai Pan,Yi Xie +9 more
TL;DR: This work demonstrates that excitons can be effectively dissociated into charge carriers with the incorporation of oxygen vacancy, leading to excellent performances in charge-carrier-involved photocatalytic reactions such as superoxide generation and selective organic syntheses under visible-light illumination.
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Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode
Akira Fujishima,Kenichi Honda +1 more
TL;DR: Water photolysis is investigated by exploiting the fact that water is transparent to visible light and cannot be decomposed directly, but only by radiation with wavelengths shorter than 190 nm.
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The Optical Properties of Metal Nanoparticles: The Influence of Size, Shape, and Dielectric Environment
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TiO2 photocatalysis and related surface phenomena
TL;DR: The field of photocatalysis can be traced back more than 80 years to early observations of the chalking of titania-based paints and to studies of the darkening of metal oxides in contact with organic compounds in sunlight as discussed by the authors.
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Light-Induced Redox Reactions in Nanocrystalline Systems
Anders Hagfeldt,Michael Graetzel +1 more
TL;DR: A review with 156 refs on interfacial electron transfer reactions in colloidal semiconductor solns and thin films and their application for solar light energy conversion and photocatalytic water purifn is presented in this paper.
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A surface science perspective on TiO2 photocatalysis
TL;DR: The field of surface science provides a unique approach to understand bulk, surface and interfacial phenomena occurring during TiO2 photocatalysis as mentioned in this paper, including photon absorption, charge transport and trapping, electron transfer dynamics, adsorbed state, mechanisms, poisons and promoters, and phase and form.
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