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Pi Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Masatsugu Shimomura - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Yuanhua Sang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • full spectrum solar light activated photocatalysts for light chemical Energy conversion
    Advanced Energy Materials, 2017
    Co-Authors: Xiaoning Wang, Fulei Wang, Yuanhua Sang
    Abstract:

    The realization of light–chemical Energy conversion using solar light is an ideal goal in renewable Energy studies. Many reports are concerned with extracting Energy from solar light and the use/storage of the converted Energy. Due to the progress in solar light absorption with various photocatalysts, the various Energy conversion mechanisms using different Photonic energies should be summarized. Therefore, the photocatalytic work that light can achieve with a certain Photonic Energy range, from UV light to visible light to near-infrared light, is summarized in this review, including the most recent progress concerning light–chemical conversion mechanisms, classified as photocatalytic redox and photothermal catalysis. This review mostly concerns the mechanisms and specific strategies of light–chemical Energy conversion based on various Photonic energies.

Kazuhiro Takanabe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • photocatalytic water splitting quantitative approaches toward photocatalyst by design
    ACS Catalysis, 2017
    Co-Authors: Kazuhiro Takanabe
    Abstract:

    A widely used term, “photocatalysis”, generally addresses photocatalytic (energetically downhill) and photosynthetic (energetically uphill) reactions and refers to the use of Photonic Energy as a driving force for chemical transformations, i.e., electron reorganization to form/break chemical bonds. Although there are many such important reactions, this contribution focuses on the fundamental aspects of photocatalytic water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen by using light from the solar spectrum, which is one of the most investigated photosynthetic reactions. Photocatalytic water splitting using solar Energy is considered to be artificial photosynthesis that produces a solar fuel because the reaction mimics nature’s photosynthesis not only in its redox reaction type but also in its thermodynamics (water splitting: 1.23 eV vs glucose formation: 1.24 eV). To achieve efficient photocatalytic water splitting, all of the parameters, though involved at different time scales and spatial resolutions, should be op...

Yun Zhao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.