Abstract
As a versatile raw material, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is extensively employed in chemicals synthesis, medical disinfection, textile industry, and environmental remediation fields. H2O2 generation through a photocatalytic route has attracted increasing interest. Tremendous progress and achievements have been made over the past decades in photocatalytic H2O2 production. Herein, we critically review the state-of-the art developments on various photocatalysts, including carbon nitride, titania, bismuth, sulfide, carbon, and metal-organic-compound-related materials, for the highly efficient light-driven H2O2 synthesis. Significantly, these materials show tunable morphology, micro-nanostructure, surface chemistry, and electronic band-gap structure characters for sufficient light harvesting, rapid hole-electron pairs separation and transfer, and favorable reactants adsorption as well as facilitated products desorption, thus delivering great activity for efficient light-driven H2O2 production. The specific challenges and opportunities related to photocatalytic materials discovery and development that will emerge from this important field are discussed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2119-2167 |
Number of pages | 49 |
Journal | Matter |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6 Jul 2022 |
Keywords
- carbon nitride
- hydrogen peroxide
- metal-organic materials
- photocatalysts design
- titania
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Johan Wouters (Manager) & Carmela Aprile (Manager)
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