Nanocomposite heterojunctions as sunlight-driven photocatalysts for hydrogen production from water splitting

Literature Information

Publication Date 2015-02-26
DOI 10.1039/C4NR07224C
Impact Factor 7.79
Authors

Mohammad Reza Gholipour, Cao-Thang Dinh, François Béland, Trong-On Do



Abstract

Hydrogen production via photocatalytic water splitting using sunlight has enormous potential in solving the worldwide energy and environmental crisis. The key challenge in this process is to develop efficient photocatalysts which must satisfy several criteria such as high chemical and photochemical stability, effective charge separation and strong sunlight absorption. The combination of different semiconductors to create composite materials offers a promising way to achieve efficient photocatalysts because doing so can improve the charge separation, light absorption and stability of the photocatalysts. In this review article, we summarized the most recent studies on semiconductor composites for hydrogen production under visible light irradiation. After a general introduction about the photocatalysis phenomenon, typical heterojunctions of widely studied heterogeneous semiconductors, including titanium dioxide, cadmium sulfide and graphitic carbon nitride are discussed in detail.

Source Journal

Nanoscale

Nanoscale
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