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Water Splitting By Photocatalytic Reduction

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Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

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Water splitting by photocatalytic reduction is considered to be one of the most promising solutions to solve both the worldwide energy shortage and environmental pollution problems. Metal sulfide semiconductor photocatalysts as an important kind of photocatalysts have gained extensive interest in the field of photocatalytic H2 evolution due to their superior photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation. This chapter summarizes the integration and optimization of highly efficient metal sulfide-based semiconductors from a system engineering perspective. To achieve the optimum efficiency, several typical system integration strategies such as loading co-catalysts onto nanoscale metal sulfides, forming doped or nanosized solid solutions, developing core/shell and intercalated semiconductors, fabricating hybrid or multi-junction photocatalysts, and exploring new mechanisms beyond heterojunctions are outlined and discussed in detail. Further research should focus on the investigation of mechanism, the development of highly efficient co-catalysts and semiconductors, as well as the construction of multi-junction photocatalysts with high H2-evolution activity. In this chapter, we not only provide a summary of system integration strategies of metal sulfides for solar water splitting but also may provide some potential opportunities for designing other types of heterogeneous photocatalysts used in solar water splitting.

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J. Yu would like to thank the 973 program (2013CB632402), and NSFC (51272199, 51320105001 and 21433007) and X. Li would like to thank NSFC (20906034), and industry and research collaborative innovation major projects of Guangzhou (201508020098) and the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing (Wuhan University of Technology) (2015-KF-7) for their support.

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Li, X., Yu, J. (2016). Water Splitting By Photocatalytic Reduction. In: Colmenares, J., Xu, YJ. (eds) Heterogeneous Photocatalysis. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48719-8_6

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