Research Progress of Piezocatalysis In Energy and Environment Fields

Abstract

Due to it can simulate the vibration in natural conditions, piezocatalysis has been a research hotspot in solving environmental and energy issues in recent years, and significant progress has been made, which needs to be re-summarized and reorganized to present a concise and logical work to readers. Therefore, in this paper, the recent progress of reported piezocatalysts (such as oxide, perovskite, sulfide, PVDF, MOFs and COFs, etc.), the way to enhance the performance of piezocatalysis (such as defects, heterojunctions, piezo-coupled photocatalysis, etc.), and the application of piezocatalysis in environmental and energy fields (such as dyes, pesticides and antibiotics, heavy metal, piezocatalytic hydrogen production, piezocatalytic CO2 reduction, etc.), have been summarized. Finally, the future development trends of piezocatalysis are prospected and discussed.