Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Perspectives
CHAPTER 10: New Materials: Outline
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Published:17 Mar 2016
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Jinhua Ye, 2016. "New Materials: Outline", Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Perspectives, Jenny Schneider, Detlef Bahnemann, Jinhua Ye, Gianluca Li Puma, Dionysios D Dionysiou, Jenny Schneider, Detlef Bahnemann, Jinhua Ye, Gianluca Li Puma, Dionysios D Dionysiou
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Photocatalysis has shown great potential as a green technology to help solve the energy shortage and environmental pollution issues. In particular, TiO2 has attracted a great deal of attention as a representative photocatalytic material due to its chemical inertness, strong oxidizing activity, long-term stability against photocorrosion and chemical corrosion, cost-effectiveness, and non-toxicity.1,2 However, TiO2 possesses a wide band gap (3.0–3.2 eV) that limits its photo-absorption to the UV region, which accounts for only about 4% of the total irradiated sunlight. From the perspective of practical applications, it is highly desirable to develop new photocatalytic materials that harvest photons over a wide range of visible wavelengths or even into the infrared region.