Rational catalyst design for spatial separation of charge carriers in a multi-component photocatalyst for effective hydrogen evolution
Mingyu Xia, Xiaolong Zhao, Yingguang Zhang, Wending Pan, Dennis Y.C. Leung
Abstract
This manuscript comprehensively reviews the effect of spatial separation of charge carriers and novel strategies to achieve spatially separated active sites for enhancing photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over different photocatalyst systems.
Topics & Concepts
PhotocatalysisCharge carrierRational designComponent (thermodynamics)CatalysisSeparation (statistics)Materials scienceHydrogenCharge (physics)NanotechnologyChemical engineeringComputer scienceOptoelectronicsChemistryPhysicsEngineeringThermodynamicsOrganic chemistryQuantum mechanicsMachine learningAdvanced Photocatalysis TechniquesCopper-based nanomaterials and applicationsQuantum Dots Synthesis And Properties