Water oxidation offers a promising path to achieve sustainable energy by efficiently generating oxygen. This study investigates how optimizing Ru(II) photosensitizers, metal oxide catalysts, and pH conditions can enhance water splitting efficiency. By introducing a simplified method to estimate catalyst…
An asymmetrically coordinated zinc single-atom catalyst degrades antibiotics in water while converting the pollutants' own electrons into hydrogen peroxide.
A new review in Catal charts how donor-acceptor conjugated polymers have lifted solar-driven hydrogen peroxide production in pure water by up to two orders of magnitude, while conversion efficiencies remain below 3 percent.
A Co₃O₄/ZnS heterojunction achieved sacrificial-agent-free photocatalytic ammonia synthesis from N₂ and water at 607.6 µg·h⁻¹·gcat⁻¹, retaining 98.4% of its activity over five cycles. Chemists have reported a cobalt oxideâzinc sulfide heterostructure that converts nitrogen and water into ammonia using only…
Researchers fabricated two otherwise identical cellulose-supported MOF films and found the copper-based version adsorbed more methylene blue while the nickel-based one performed better on real textile effluent. Article Title: Influence of copper and nickel nodes on the adsorption behavior of…
This study compared the degradation of twelve emerging organic contaminants in rainwater by direct photolysis and TiO2-assisted heterogeneous photocatalysis using two UV lamp configurations with different emission spectra and wavelength-specific radiant fluxes ranging from 297 to 578 nm. Differences in micropollutant degradation…
Researchers created multiphase strontium, magnesium, and barium oxide-carbon nanocomposites that adsorb malachite green with capacities up to 371.75 mg/g and remain reusable over five regeneration cycles.
Sunlight can covert glycerol, a low value product of biodiesel production into hydrogen and higher value chemicals The research team used X-ray absorption spectroscopy and infrared microspectroscopy at the Australian Synchrotron to observe the catalytic reactions in real time Dr…
Sunlight can covert glycerol, a low value product of biodiesel production into hydrogen and higher value chemicals The research team used X-ray absorption spectroscopy and infrared microspectroscopy at the Australian Synchrotron to observe the catalytic reactions in real time Dr…
Researchers boosted the visible-light conversion of biomass-derived HMF into the valuable chemical DFF by 2.3 times simply by engineering higher crystallinity into CdIn2S4 octahedral photocatalysts, while maintaining selectivity above 90 percent.
Light-driven catalysts: photocatalysts for water splitting, breaking down pollutants, converting CO2 and driving organic synthesis.
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