Review of strategies for the fabrication of heterojunctional nanocomposites as efficient visible-light catalysts by modulating excited electrons with appropriate thermodynamic energy

Ziqing Zhang, Linlu Bai, Zhijun Li, Yang Qu and Liqiang Jing

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 10879
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Thermal annealing-induced structural reorganization in polymeric photocatalysts for enhanced hydrogen evolution

Zhi-An Lan, Yuanxing Fang, Xiong Chen and Xinchen Wang

Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 7756
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The influence of the precursor molar ratio on the structure of the CdS catalyst during synthesis and visible-light driven CO2 reduction into solar fuel

Cong Huang, Xuehua Zhang, Dongyang Li, Mengyue Wang and Qiang Wu

New J. Chem., 2022, 46, 10339
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In situ preparation of CdS decorated ZnWO4 nanorods as a photocatalyst for direct conversion of sunlight into fuel and RhB degradation

Yogesh A. Sethi, Rajendra P. Panmand, Anuradha Ambalkar, Aniruddha K. Kulkarni, Deepak R. Patil, Aarti R. Gunjal, Suresh W. Gosavi, Milind V. Kulkarni and Bharat B. Kale

Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2019, 3, 793
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Sonochemical deposition of ultrafine metallic Pt nanoparticles on CdS for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Shuzi Liu, Zhuang Guo, Xianhao Qian, Jingyi Zhang, Jinxin Liu and Jun Lin

Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2019, 3, 1048
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Photocatalytic overall water splitting endowed by modulation of internal and external energy fields

Wenhao Zhao, Haijun Chen, Jinqiang Zhang, Paul J. Low and Hongqi Sun

Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 17292
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Emerging layered BiO2−x for photocatalysis: status, challenges, and outlook

Haonan Li, Donghui Hu, Zhe Li and Yang Qu

Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2020, 4, 5378
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Charge transfer in TiO2-based photocatalysis: fundamental mechanisms to material strategies

Sharafat Ali, Pir Muhammad Ismail, Muhammad Khan, Alei Dang, Sajjad Ali, Amir Zada, Fazal Raziq, Imran Khan, Muhammad Shakeel Khan, Muhammad Ateeq, Waliullah Khan, Syedul Hasnain Bakhtiar, Haider Ali, Xiaoqiang Wu, Muhammad Ishaq Ali Shah, Ajayan Vinu, Jiabao Yi, Pengfei Xia and Liang Qiao

Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 4352
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Semiconducting Polymers for Oxygen Evolution Reaction under Light Illumination

Yuanxing Fang, Yidong Hou, Xianzhi Fu and Xinchen Wang

Chem. Rev., 2022, 122, 4204
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Synthesis and physiochemical performances of PVC-sodium polyacrylate and PVC-sodium polyacrylate-graphite composite polymer membrane

Abdul Hamid, Muhammad Khan, Fakhar Hussain, Amir Zada, Tiehu Li, Dang Alei and Amjad Ali

Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 2021, 235, 1791
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Boosting the photocatalytic activity for H2 production of Bi2O2Se/CdS heterojunction

Jiajia Liu, Lingfang Qiu, Zheyuan Liu, Yi Tang, Lihong Cheng, Zhiqin Chen, Ping Li, Banpeng Cao, Xiangshu Chen, Hidetoshi Kita and Shuwang Duo

Materials Letters, 2023, 345, 134498
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Dye loaded MnO2 and chlorine intercalated g-C3N4 coupling impart enhanced visible light photoactivities for pollutants degradation

Humaira Yasmeen, Amir Zada and Shouxin Liu

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2019, 380, 111867
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Reducing the Exciton Binding Energy of Donor–Acceptor‐Based Conjugated Polymers to Promote Charge‐Induced Reactions

Zhi‐An Lan, Guigang Zhang, Xiong Chen, Yongfan Zhang, Kai A. I. Zhang and Xinchen Wang

Angewandte Chemie, 2019, 131, 10342
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Conjugated donor-acceptor polymer photocatalysts with electron-output “tentacles” for efficient hydrogen evolution

Zhi-An Lan, Wei Ren, Xiong Chen, Yongfan Zhang and Xinchen Wang

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019, 245, 596
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Effective visible-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of 17α-ethynylestradiol by crosslinked CdS nano-rod/TiO2 (B) nano-belt composite

Lijun Luo, Junhong Long, Shimin Zhao, Jianhui Dai, Lici Ma, Hongbin Wang, Lihong Xia, Li Shu and Fengzhi Jiang

Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2019, 130, 77
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Reducing the Exciton Binding Energy of Donor–Acceptor‐Based Conjugated Polymers to Promote Charge‐Induced Reactions

Zhi‐An Lan, Guigang Zhang, Xiong Chen, Yongfan Zhang, Kai A. I. Zhang and Xinchen Wang

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2019, 58, 10236
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Recent progress in emerging materials and hybrid nanocomposites for peroxymonosulfate and peroxydisulfate activation towards solar light-driven photocatalytic degradation of emerging pollutants

Imran Khan, Wenjie Liu, Amir Zada, Fazal Raziq, Sharafat Ali, Muhammad Ishaq Ali Shah, Muhammad Ateeq, Muhammad Khan, Dang Alei, Perveen Fazil, Waliullah Khan, Javed Ali Khan, Yixiao Cai, Wenbiao Jin, Sining Yun and Lei Yang

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024, 499, 215466
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Surface plasmon resonance electron channeled through amorphous aluminum oxide bridged ZnO coupled g-C3N4 significantly promotes charge separation for pollutants degradation under visible light

Yasmeen Humaira, Zada Amir and Liu Shouxin

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2020, 400, 112681
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Graphitic carbon nitride, a polymer photocatalyst

Kezhen Qi, Shu-yuan Liu and Amir Zada

Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2020, 109, 111
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Electronically Inverted Perovskite‐Type Co‐catalyst as a Universal Platform for Enhanced Photocatalysis

Hanlin Huang, Zheyan Chen, Yalin Yang, Yushuang Lin, Yuelu Fan, Xiaodong Wu, Yuanxin Ji, Yutian Wang, Chengkai Yang, Yan Yu and Zhigang Zou

Adv Funct Materials, 2025, 35
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Transition‐Metal‐Based Cocatalysts for Photocatalytic Water Splitting

Hui Zhao, Liang Jian, Ming Gong, Mengyang Jing, Haixia Li, Qinyi Mao, Tongbin Lu, Yinxin Guo, Rong Ji, Wenwen Chi, Yuming Dong and Yongfa Zhu

Small Structures, 2022, 3
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Recent Advances in Transition Metal Nitride‐Based Materials for Photocatalytic Applications

Zhixing Cheng, Weiliang Qi, Cheng Heng Pang, Tiju Thomas, Tao Wu, Siqi Liu and Minghui Yang

Adv Funct Materials, 2021, 31
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Recent advances in modulating charge separation of α-Fe2O3-based photocatalysts

Shabana Shaheen, Zhuo Li, Amir Zada, Ji Bian, Ziqing Zhang, Yang Qu and Liqiang Jing

Surfaces and Interfaces, 2024, 44, 103623
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Visible light active and noble metal free Nb4N5/TiO2 nanobelt surface heterostructure for plasmonic enhanced solar water splitting

Yanchen Ji, Ruiqi Yang, Longwei Wang, Guoxin Song, Aizhu Wang, Yawei Lv, Mingming Gao, Jian Zhang and Xin Yu

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 402, 126226
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A facile two-step method to synthesize immobilized CdS/BiOCl film photocatalysts with enhanced photocatalytic activities

Jiaqian Zhu, Yinghua Shen, Xiang Yu, Jia Guo, Yi Zhu and Yuanming Zhang

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2019, 771, 309
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Perovskite-type lanthanum ferrite based photocatalysts: Preparation, properties, and applications

Muhammad Humayun, Habib Ullah, Muhammad Usman, Aziz Habibi-Yangjeh, Asif Ali Tahir, Chundong Wang and Wei Luo

Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2022, 66, 314
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In Situ Carbonization Combined with a Low-Temperature Graphitization Technique for Preparation of CdS@graphitic Carbon Nanorods and Their Robust Photocatalytic Performance under Visible Light

Zhongmei Yang, Jiaying Yan, Xuan Li, Sen Liu, Qiuyang Zhang, Yanchun Wei, Li Quan, Wei Ye and Changjiang Pan

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2022, 10, 3311
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Suitable energy platform of Bi2WO6 significantly improves visible-light degradation activity of g-C3N4 for highly toxic diuron pollutant

Humaira Yasmeen, Amir Zada, Wei Li, Mingcong Xu and Shouxin Liu

Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2019, 102, 104598
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CdS@NiCo-LDH hybrid photoelectrocatalyst with enhanced photocatalytic activity: A convenient and stable hybrid for wastewater treatment

Azam Pirkarami, Sousan Rasouli and Ebrahim Ghasemi

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022, 911, 164736
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Accelerating Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production and Pollutant Degradation by Functionalizing g-C3N4 With SnO2

Amir Zada, Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Nasimullah Qureshi, Shu-yuan Liu and Ruidan Wang

Front. Chem., 2020, 7
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Design and Characterization of ZnSe/GeO2 Heterojunctions as Bandstop Filters and Negative Capacitance Devices

Sabah E. Algarni, Atef F. Qasrawi and Najla M. Khusayfan

Physica Status Solidi (a), 2021, 218
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Surface plasmon resonance excited electron induction greatly extends H2 evolution and pollutant degradation activity of g‐C3N4 under visible light irradiation

Amir Zada, Nauman Ali, Muhammad Ateeq, Ali M. Huerta‐Flores, Zahid Hussain, Shabana Shaheen, Mohib Ullah, Sharafat Ali, Imran Khan, Wajid Ali, Muhammad Ishaq Ali Shah and Waliullah Khan

J Chinese Chemical Soc, 2020, 67, 983
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A facile method to produce MoSe2/MXene hybrid nanoflowers with enhanced electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution

Jia-Jun Huang, Xiao-Qing Liu, Fei-Fei Meng, Lan-Qi He, Jun-Xi Wang, Jia-Cheng Wu, Xi-Hong Lu, Ye-Xiang Tong and Ping-Ping Fang

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2020, 856, 113727
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Properly aligned band structures in B-TiO2/MIL53(Fe)/g-C3N4 ternary nanocomposite can drastically improve its photocatalytic activity for H2 evolution: Investigations based on the experimental results

Wenbo Pi, Muhammad Humayun, Yuan Li, Yang Yuan, Junhao Cao, Sher Ali, Mei Wang, Honglang Li, Abbas Khan, Zhiping Zheng, Qiuyun Fu, Yahui Tian and Wei Luo

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021, 46, 21912
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Recent Progress in the Synthesis and Applications of Composite Photocatalysts: A Critical Review

Muhammad Humayun, Chundong Wang and Wei Luo

Small Methods, 2022, 6
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Extended visible light driven photocatalytic hydrogen generation by electron induction from g-C3N4 nanosheets to ZnO through the proper heterojunction

Amir Zada, Muhammad Khan, Zahid Hussain, Muhammad Ishaq Ali Shah, Muhammad Ateeq, Mohib Ullah, Nauman Ali, Shabana Shaheen, Humaira Yasmeen, Syed Niaz Ali Shah and Alei Dang

Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 2022, 236, 53
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Review on the hazardous applications and photodegradation mechanisms of chlorophenols over different photocatalysts

Amir Zada, Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Asim Khan, Qasim Khan, Aziz Habibi-Yangjeh, Alei Dang and Muhammad Maqbool

Environmental Research, 2021, 195, 110742
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.110742