Issue 30, 2024

Band engineering of layered oxyhalide photocatalysts for visible-light water splitting

Abstract

The band structure offers fundamental information on electronic properties of solid state materials, and hence it is crucial for solid state chemists to understand and predict the relationship between the band structure and electronic structure to design chemical and physical properties. Here, we review layered oxyhalide photocatalysts for water splitting with a particular emphasis on band structure control. The unique feature of these materials including Sillén and Sillén–Aurivillius oxyhalides lies in their band structure including a remarkably high oxygen band, allowing them to exhibit both visible light responsiveness and photocatalytic stability unlike conventional mixed anion compounds, which show good light absorption, but frequently encounter stability issues. For band structure control, simple strategies effective in mixed-anion compounds, such as anion substitution forming high energy p orbitals in accordance with its electronegativity, is not effective for oxyhalides with high oxygen bands. We overview key concepts for band structure control of oxyhalide photocatalysts such as lone-pair interactions and electrostatic interactions. The control of the band structure of inorganic solid materials is a crucial challenge across a wide range of materials chemistry fields, and the insights obtained by the development of oxyhalide photocatalysts are expected to provide knowledge for diverse materials chemistry.

Graphical abstract: Band engineering of layered oxyhalide photocatalysts for visible-light water splitting

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
29 Mar 2024
Accepted
25 Jun 2024
First published
26 Jun 2024
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2024,15, 11719-11736

Band engineering of layered oxyhalide photocatalysts for visible-light water splitting

D. Kato, H. Suzuki, R. Abe and H. Kageyama, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 11719 DOI: 10.1039/D4SC02093F

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