Direct photocatalytic coupling of methanol to ethylene glycol (EG) is highly attractive. The first metal oxide photocatalyst, a tantalum-based semiconductor, is reported for preferential activation of C-H bonds within methanol ...
Materials Science
Jun 1, 2021
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Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting paints and coatings, hydrogen production ...
Materials Science
Apr 22, 2021
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In order to enable large-scale hydrogen production using solar energy, particulate photocatalysts are being researched as a simple and cost-effective solution to splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. It is necessary to ...
Materials Science
Mar 30, 2021
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Prof. Huang Weixin and Zhang Qun from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with domestic collaborators, probed into the photocatalytic oxidation of methanol ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 15, 2021
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In recent years, rapid industrialization has caused increasingly severe environmental pollution. Antibiotics and microbiological contamination in water have become major threats to human health and critical risks to ecosystem ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 14, 2021
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Currently, the majority of energy consumed by the world's population is derived from oil and other non-renewable resources which are in danger of running out in the near future. Consequently the development of artificial ...
Materials Science
Nov 18, 2020
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Copper-based quaternary sulfide nanomaterials, especially for Cu-Zn-In-S (CZIS) and Cu-Zn-Ga-S (CZGS), which consist of non-toxic elements are attractive candidate for solar photocatalytic hydrogen production due to their ...
Materials Science
Oct 27, 2020
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Scientists at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, develop a novel "heterostructured" photocatalyst using titanium and copper, two abundant and relatively inexpensive metals. Their cost-effective synthesis ...
Materials Science
Sep 9, 2020
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The key to efficiently harvesting energy from sunlight could be to find the right combinations of light-capturing materials. Researchers at KAUST have discovered that a form of iron oxide makes an excellent co-catalyst for ...
Materials Science
Sep 2, 2020
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A research group led by Associate Professor Tachikawa Takashi of Kobe University's Molecular Photoscience Research Center has succeeded in developing a strategy that greatly increases the amount of hydrogen produced from ...
Materials Science
May 7, 2020
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