Emerging semiconductors and metal-organic-compounds-related photocatalysts for sustainable hydrogen peroxide production

Yang Ding, Soumyajit Maitra, Somoprova Halder, Chunhua Wang, Runtian Zheng, Tarek Barakat, Subhasis Roy, Li Hua Chen, Bao Lian Su

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2119-2167
Number of pages49
JournalMatter
Volume5
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Jul 2022

Funding

L.-H.C. acknowledges Hubei Provincial Department of Education for the “Chutian Scholar” program. Y.D. thanks the financial support from the China Scholarship Council ( 201808310127 ). This work is financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China ( U1663225 and U20A20122 ), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University ( IRT_15R52 ) of the Chinese Ministry of Education, and Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities-Plan 111 (grant no. B20002 ) from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education of China . This research was also supported by the European Commission Interreg V France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen project “DepollutAir.” L.-H.C. acknowledges Hubei Provincial Department of Education for the “Chutian Scholar” program. Y.D. thanks the financial support from the China Scholarship Council (201808310127). This work is financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1663225 and U20A20122), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT_15R52) of the Chinese Ministry of Education, and Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities-Plan 111 (grant no. B20002) from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education of China. This research was also supported by the European Commission Interreg V France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen project “DepollutAir.”, Conceptualization, L.-H.C. and B.-L.S.; investigation, Y.D.; writing – original draft, Y.D.; writing – review & editing, Y.D. S.M. S.H. C.W. R.Z. T.B. S.R. L.-H.C. and B.-L.S.; supervision, L.-H.C. and B.-L.S. The authors declare no competing interests.

Keywords

  • carbon nitride
  • hydrogen peroxide
  • metal-organic materials
  • photocatalysts design
  • titania

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