Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysts: Performance Related Properties

Abstract:

The present work considers the performance-related properties of TiO2-based photosensitive semiconductors as photocatalysts for water purification and photoelectrodes for water splitting. These properties, including electronic structure, charge transport, surface properties, and near-tosurface properties, have an effect on light absorption and its conversion into chemical energy, and are closely related to defect disorder. Therefore, defect chemistry may be used as a framework for their modification in order to achieve enhanced performance. The present work considers the relationships between these specific performance-related properties and defect disorder.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 162)
• Pages: 329-335
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.162.329
• Online since: June 2010
• Authors: Tadeusz Bak, Janusz Nowotny, Quang Vinh Nguyen
• Keywords: Energy Conversion, Photocatalytic, Solar Energy, TiO₂

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