Certain metal oxides are considered good candidates for photocatalysts to produce green hydrogen with sunlight. A Chinese team has now published exciting results on copper(I) oxide particles in Nature ...

Conductive polymers (CPs) are conjugated organic structures with alternating double and single bonds and delocalized π electrons. They have unique electrochemical and optical properties and have wide ...

They found that buckled arsenene possesses the right combination of stability, electronic structure, and catalytic activity ...

One common mechanism by which catalysts operate is by lowering the transition state barrier to reaction. We are investigating the ability of the hydrogen bonding of water to the transition state to ...

Intimately Coupled Photocatalysis and Biodegradation (ICPB) represents a cutting‐edge approach to wastewater treatment that integrates advanced photocatalytic reactions with microbial degradation in a ...

A significant advance in the photocatalytic activity of conventional materials is demonstrated by a two-dimensional heterostructure comprising nanolayers of two semiconductors: black phosphorus and ...

A temporal change in the titania surface chemical state during the UV light irradiation is not observable through conventional methods such as regular FTIR or Raman spectroscopy. Therefore, a team led ...

Chemists at the School of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently made a significant breakthrough in photocatalysis by unveiling a “super” photoreductant, ...

Titanium dioxide’s knack for mediating chemical reactions upon exposure to light has made the material a popular photocatalyst for various applications, such as sterilizing glass and other surfaces ...