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Probing Charge Carrier Behavior in Engineered Photocatalysts with Time-Resolved Visible to Mid-IR Absorption Spectroscopy

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Emerging Mixed-Anion Semiconductors for Particulate Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Remarkable Structures and Innovative Fabrication Methods

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Boosting photolytic hydrogen production over N-rich BaTaO2N

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Unlocking the Key to Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production Using Electronic Mediators for Z-Scheme Water Splitting

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Synergistic effects of cocatalyst and homojunction/heterojunction with boosted photocatalytic H2 evolution over Zn0.5Cd0.5S/NDs

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Boosted Photocatalytic Water Oxidation over BaTaO2N Produced from Perovskite Oxides Based on Photoinduced Charge Carriers

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Engineering structural variations in oxynitrides to boost photocatalytic hydrogen evolution: current advances and future directions

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Single-crystalline BaxSr1-xTaO2N solid-solution photocatalyst with low defect concentrations for solar-driven water splitting

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Synergistic photocatalytic performance of CoMgLDH/Ni-Borophene composite for hydrogen evolution and dye degradation

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Detailed study of defect layer at the surface of BaTaO2N: a potential candidate for visible light photocatalytic water splitting

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Enhanced Z-scheme water splitting at atmospheric pressure with suppression of reverse reactions using Zr-doped BaTaO2N as hydrogen evolution photocatalyst

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Advances and challenges in photocatalytic water splitting: recent developments and trends

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Interfacial Electrostatic Interaction Overcomes Backward Electron Transfer without CrOx-Based Core–Shell Cocatalyst for Efficient Z-Scheme Water Splitting

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Creation and Plasmon-Assisted Photosensitization of Annealed Z-Schemes for Sunlight-Only Water Splitting

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Mg-doped SrTaO2N as a visible-light-driven H2-evolution photocatalyst for accelerated Z-scheme overall water splitting

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Core–Shell Structured Cocatalysts for Enhancing Redox-Mediated Z-Scheme Photocatalytic Water Splitting and Producing H2 and O2 Separately

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Perovskite BaTaO2N: From Materials Synthesis to Solar Water Splitting

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Advanced Science, 2023, 10
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Growth of Millimeter‐Sized BaTaO2N Single Crystals by an NH3‐Assisted BaCl2 Flux Method

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Tunable Copper-doped BaZrO3 for generation of hydrogen through photocatalytic water splitting

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A Comprehensive Review of the Role of Overlayers in Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting and Related Reactions

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Electrochemical Properties of BaTaO2N Photocatalyst with Visible‐Light‐Driven Water Splitting Capability

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ChemPhotoChem, 2023, 7
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