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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
卷 45, 期 46, 页码 24544-24557出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.06.301
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Photocatalysis; Heterojunction photocatalyst; Z-scheme; H-2 production
This perspective provides an insight to the possibility of adopting hydrogen as a key energy-carrier and fuel source, through Photocatalytic water splitting in the near future. The need of green and clean energy is increasing to overcome the growing demand of sustainable energy throughout globe, owing to CO2 emission using fossil fuels. To generate highly efficient and cost-competitive hydrogen, the semiconductor based heterojunction nanomaterials have gained tremendous consideration as a promising way. Currently, the efficiency for hydrogen generation through UV-Vis active photocatalysts is relatively low. The key issues are found to be poor separation of photogenerated electron/hole, less surface area, and low absorption region of electromagnetic spectrum. Such issues arise due to inappropriate band edge potentials and large bandgap of present catalyst. A lot of schemes has been devoted to design and fabricate efficient photocatalysts for improved photo catalytic performance in recent years. However, it seems still a challenge and imperative to greatly comprehend the fundamental aspects, photocatalysis and transfer mechanisms for complete deployment of electron/hole pairs. Further, to produce hydrogen to a larger extent through photocatalytic water splitting, the photocatalyst has been modified through co-catalysts/dopants using numerous techniques including the Z-scheme, hybridization, crystallinity, morphology, tuning of band edge positions, reduction of the band gap, surface structure etc., such that these heterogeneous photocatalysts may have ability to absorb enough light in the UV-VIS-IR region. This type of heterogeneous photocatalysts has the ability to improve the rate of efficiency for hydrogen evolution through absorption of sufficient light of solar spectrum and enhance the separation of charge-carriers by inhibiting recombination of electron/hole pairs. We surmise that taking into account the aforesaid factors should support in scheming an efficient photocatalysts for hydrogen production through water splitting, eventually prompting technological developments in this field. (c) 2020 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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