Energy storage devices (ESD) are getting significant attention regarding their ability to reduce fossil fuel usage. Batteries and electrochemical supercapacitors are two well-known ESDs with supercapacitors preferred for their high energy discharge potential. The metal oxides (MOs) with robust redox characteristics are ideal candidates for supercap...
Energy storage devices (ESD) are getting significant attention regarding their ability to reduce fossil fuel usage. Batteries and electrochemical supercapacitors are two well-known ESDs with supercapacitors preferred for their high energy discharge potential. The metal oxides (MOs) with robust redox characteristics are ideal candidates for supercap...
Hydrogen (H-2) production via solar water splitting is one of the most ideal strategies for providing sustainable fuel because this requires only water and sunlight. In achieving high-yield production of hydrogen as a recyclable energy carrier, the nanoscale design of semiconductor (SC) materials plays a pivotal role in both photoelectrochemical (P...
The solar-driven photo(electro)catalytic process is a key technology for utilization of solar energy. It is being intensively investigated for application to environmental remediation and solar fuel production. Although both environmental and energy applications operate on the basis of the same principle of photoinduced interfacial charge transfer,...
Photocatalytic water splitting is one of the most important renewable paths and a reliable hydrogen production system. In most successful molecular and supramolecular biomimetic hydrogen production methods, a photosensitizer and a catalyst were constructed where the photoexcited electron in the photosensitizer is transferred either inter- or intram...
Photocatalytic water splitting is one of the most important renewable paths and a reliable hydrogen production system. In most successful molecular and supramolecular biomimetic hydrogen production methods, a photosensitizer and a catalyst were constructed where the photoexcited electron in the photosensitizer is transferred either inter- or intram...
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting to hydrogen is an attractive method for capturing and storing the solar energy in the form of chemical energy. Metal oxides are promising photoanode materials due to their low-cost synthetic routes and higher stability than other semiconductors. In this paper, we provide an overview of recent efforts to im...
We report pronounced enhancement of photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation of a quantum dot-sensitized hybrid-TiO2 (QD/H-TiO2) electrode that is composed of a mesoporous TiO2 layer sandwiched by a double sided energy harvesting layer consisting of a surface-textured TiO2 inverse opals layer on the bottom and a patterned mesoporous TiO2 layer on t...
Silica-titania core-shell nanoparticles of 30, 40, 50, 55, 75, and 110 nm were prepared from tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and tetraisopropyl titanate (TIPT). After calcination, the amorphous titania shell transformed into anatase nanoparticles, and the silica-titania core-shell nanoparticles became raspberry-like nanoparticles. These nanoparticl...
