Advances in the optical and electronic properties and applications of bismuth-based semiconductor materials

Peng Xia, Yuan-Jun Song, Yu-Ze Liu, Mei-Xuan Long, Cheng Yang, Xiao-Yang Zhang and Tong Zhang

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12, 1609
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Boosting small-molecule reduction with bismuth-based nanostructured reactors

Yue Wu, Bozhao Zhang, Yuan Yu, Qinyu Jiang, Shanru Feng, Yongjin Lin, Yaqiang Li, Chuhao Liu and Chen Chen

Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 10800
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Polyoxometalates tailoring of frustrated Lewis pairs on Ce-doped Bi2O3 for boosting photocatalytic CO2 reduction

Jiayu Zhu, Hongshan Zhou, Xiaojing Liang, Pengfei Feng, Shijiao Zhao, Yuhe Sun, Baochun Ma, Yong Ding and Xinbao Han

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 6761
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Modulating the doping state of transition metal ions in ZnS for enhanced photocatalytic activity

Linping Bao, Xiaohui Ren, Chengyin Liu, Xin Liu, Chunhui Dai, Yong Yang, Mohamed Bououdina, Sajjad Ali and Chao Zeng

Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 11280
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Unveiling a growth temperature-dependent ultra-sensitive tetragonal scheelite BiVO4 thin film-based gas sensor for ammonia volatilization at room temperature

Santhosh Nallakumar, Logu Thirumalaisamy, Sivaperuman Kalainathan, Vijaya B, Anand Sekar and Muthurakku Usha Rani

RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 39498
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Bi2MoO6-based photocatalysts: engineering strategies for environmental and energy applications

Yiying Li, Zhilin Li, Enxiang Bi and Jingmei Li

RSC Adv., 2025, 15, 42545
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High-efficiency photocatalytic degradation of 2-MBT under visible light using montmorillonite-modified Bi3O4Br catalysts

Xuefeng Hu, Chao Wang and Junhan Yang

J Mater Sci, 2025, 60, 5365
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Modulating of Bi2MoO6-based photocatalyst through manipulation of reactant ratios for enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity

Shilin Li, Yunhui Tian and Guangxin Zhang

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2024, 692, 133958
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Optimizing Adsorption‐Redox Sites and Charge Transfer of Ternary Polymer Photocatalyst with P─N Linkage for CO2 Conversion Coupled with Antibiotics Removal

Mengmeng Wang, Guping Zhang, Shihong Dong, Najun Li, Qingfeng Xu, Hua Li, Jianmei Lu and Dongyun Chen

Adv Funct Materials, 2024, 34
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Two bismuth-mercapto one-dimensional coordination polymers with efficient visible light-driven catalysis

Ranran Wu, Jing He and Qipu Lin

Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2025, 346, 125272
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Accelerating the production of formate radicals for nitrate purification via a redox-regulated photocatalysis route

Shuangshuang Yu, Shujie Shen, Chunling Zhang, Ruimin Chen, Huimin Dan, Jieyuan Li and Fan Dong

Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 2024, 358, 124419
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Bismuth in Radical Chemistry and Catalysis

Mauro Mato and Josep Cornella

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2024, 63
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Cu‐Doped 0D Bi2WO6 Nanoparticles for Efficient Visible‐Light‐Driven Photocatalytic Tetracycline Degradation

Jianhua Wang, Fangpei Ma, Min Yao, Wenjing He, Yueyao Bi, Xiaoyuan Shi, Jiaxu Liu and Qian Wang

ChemistrySelect, 2024, 9
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Conductive polymer modified β-FeOOH loaded onto BiVO4 for enhanced photocorrosion inhibition and photoelectrochemical performance

Xianhong He, Wei Tian, Jahangeer Ahmed, Zhengyu Bai and Lin Yang

J Mater Sci, 2025, 60, 5351
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Structural tuning of bismuth molybdate composite photocatalyst for pollutants removal

Guangxin Zhang, Shilin Li, Luyue Zhang and Yunhui Tian

Surfaces and Interfaces, 2024, 44, 103707
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Synthesis of waste derived bimetallic (Fe/Ca) Oxy-iodide (WD-BMOX) encapsulated with PVDF based nanosphere (WD-BMOX-P) as solar active agent: An efficient photodegradation of antibiotic

Shabnam, Neetu Talreja, Divya Chauhan and Mohammad Ashfaq

Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 2024, 41, e01081
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Bismuth(III) Coordination Linkage with Dimercaptothiadiazole: A p-Type Metallopolymer Photocathode Stable in Protic Electrolytes

Sarada K. Gopinathan, Prashanth Vishwa, Gilbert Daniel Nessim, Iranna Udachyan and Sakthivel Kandaiah

ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2024, 7, 6807
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Cu-Doped 2D-Bi2MoO6 Nanoribbon/rGO Photocatalysts for Selective Ethanol Production by Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Arindam Mandal and Kajari Kargupta

ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2025, 8, 3471
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In situ nano-architectonic fabrication of Bi/BiOCl quasi-Ohmic heterojunctions via NaBH4 reduction for enhanced photo(electro)catalytic water remediation and splitting

K. Annamalai, S. Vijayakumari, Kalki Kamini Kumar, N.R. Sasirekha and S. Balakumar

Materials Today Chemistry, 2025, 48, 102898
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Microplastic types dominate the effects of bismuth oxide semi-conductor nanoparticles on their transport in saturated quartz sand

Lin Xu, Shaoyan Lv, Quanyuan Chen, Pin Gao, Genyao Gu, Yongxia Wang, Xiaopeng Min, Hyunjung Kim and Li Cai

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2025, 486, 137083
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Engineered MXene/Bi2S3 nanoflowers in sodium alginate hydrogel: A synergistic eradicator of disinfected byproducts in aqueous environment

Saleem Raza, Tariq Bashir, Asif Hayat, Ehsan Ghasali, Majed A. Bajaber, Liguo Shen, Yasin Orooji and Hongjun Lin

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2024, 279, 135486
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Progress on synthesis, characterization and photocatalytic applications of bismuth oxyhalide based nanomaterials in cleaner environment and energy - A review

Mehwish Tabassum, Aima-tul-ayesha, Bin Yang, Xin Jia and Muhammad Nadeem Zafar

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2025, 494, 144868
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Recent advances in bismuth-based heterojunction photocatalysts

Shah Noor, Syeda Maria Hashmi and Muhammad Arif

Front. Chem., 2026, 14
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Sequential Growth of Cs3Bi2I9/BiVO4 Direct Z-Scheme Heterojunction for Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Long Jiang, Hanrui Du, Le Li, Xiangjiu Guan, Yihao Zhang, Liwei Li, Xiaoxu Liu, Lei Li, Yingcheng Tian, Li Zhang, Shuai Wang, Jie Chen and Shaohua Shen

Trans. Tianjin Univ., 2023, 29, 462
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Bismuth in Radical Chemistry and Catalysis

Mauro Mato and Josep Cornella

Angewandte Chemie, 2024, 136
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Oxygen vacancy-rich β-Bi2O3/Bi2O2SiO3 Z-Scheme heterojunction: A strategy to enhance visible light-driven photocatalytic removal of ARB and ARGs

Zhengkun Yu, Yunlei Zhou, Haowei Zhang, Miao Zhang, Shuqi Gong, Huanshun Yin and Tianyi Sun

Environmental Pollution, 2024, 358, 124500
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Enhanced organic pollutant and AOX degradation of lignin-biochar/ZnAl2O4/BiPO4 with adsorption-photocatalysis synergy: Roles of lignin-biochar

Xiang Li, Aixiang Pan, Fangmin Liang, Jiejie Wang, Qingwen Tian, Qiang Yang, Yawei Zhu, Wenliang Guo, Jian Zhang and Guigan Fang

Journal of Molecular Structure, 2024, 1303, 137574
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Design of Ag2CrO4/Bi2WO6 S-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst with superior photothermal-assisted photocatalytic degradation and H2O2 production performance

Tao Xian, Wenli Jing, Lijing Di, Longkai Pan, Yongkuan Zhang, Chengyang Sun, Xiaofeng Sun, Huaqing Wang and Hua Yang

Applied Surface Science, 2025, 682, 161655
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Tailoring Bismuth‐Based Photocatalysts for Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

Esakkinaveen Dhanaraman, Atul Verma and Yen‐Pei Fu

ChemNanoMat, 2025, 11
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Synthesis of Ag-AgBr nanoparticles modified BiOCl1-xBrx composites with enhanced photocatalytic activity under visible light

Qian Liu and Deqing Chu

Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2023, 157, 111287
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Visible-Light-Induced Bi2O3 Catalysis toward 2-fold gem-Difluoroalkylation of Quinoxalinones

Karunamayee Mondal, Karthikeyan Jayabalan, Mahima Pilania and Mahiuddin Baidya

Org. Lett., 2026, 28, 3802
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Effect of Bi2MoO6 Morphology on Adsorption and Visible-Light-Driven Degradation of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid

Thi Thanh Hoa Duong, Shuoping Ding, Michael Sebek, Henrik Lund, Stephan Bartling, Tim Peppel, Thanh Son Le and Norbert Steinfeldt

Molecules, 2024, 29, 3255
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Band gap engineering and lattice distortion for synergetic enhanced piezo-photocatalytic activity of Bi2NdO4Cl by Co ion doping

Yichao Wang, Liang Xu, Sicheng Gao, Guofeng Zhang, Zhaoyi Yin, Jianbei Qiu, Zhiguo Song and Yongjin Li

Applied Surface Science, 2026, 731, 166458
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Recent progress on bismuth-based materials for full-spectrum-driven photocatalysis

Jing Liu, Shuo Du, Qiuhui Zhu, Abdelkader Labidi, Hongfang Wang and Chuanyi Wang

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2024, 12, 114790
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Recent advances of Ru-assisted semiconductor in photocatalytic N2 reduction to produce ammonia

Zehui ZHAO, Guangmin REN and Xiangchao MENG

Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, 2025, 53, 301
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Arc-discharge-enabled synthesis of multiphase Bi-based/g-C₃N₄ heterojunctions for photocatalytic pollutant degradation and hydrogen evolution

Elnaz Hashemi and Majid Taghizadeh

Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 2026, 26, 101168
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Engineering bilayer GeSe/BiOI S-scheme heterojunction for solar-driven water-splitting hydrogen evolution

Nansen Luo, Wenyi Tang, Biao Wang, Hongkuan Yuan and Hong Chen

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2025, 127, 521
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Ru-doped Bi2O3 with rich oxygen vacancy for enhanced photocatalytic nitrogen reduction

Qianyu Chu, Guangming Ren and Xiangchao Meng

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025, 1012, 178441
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A Cu-based metal-organic frameworks-modified BiOCl heterojunction for enhanced photodegradation of rhodamine B

Yuhong Wang, Dongsheng Wang, Yong Luo, Hu Xu, Rui Zhang and Jianwei Tao

Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2024, 166, 112669
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Rapid Joule heating synthesis of Pt clusters on C3N4 with abundant nitrogen vacancies for highly-efficiently photocatalytic H2 production

Zehui Zhao, Guangmin Ren, Zisheng Zhang, Xiangchao Meng and Zizhen Li

Separation and Purification Technology, 2024, 330, 125393
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Cu/S Co-anchoring junction boosted the photogenerated carrier separation efficiency in g-C3N5 for enhanced H2 evolution

Yajie Wang, Yanan Gao, Jingxuan Yang and Bin Liu

Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2025, 186, 109074
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Designing Polychromatic Er3+/Yb3+-Codoped Bi2WO6 Upconverting Nanoparticles with Enhanced Visible-Light-Triggered Photocatalytic Properties toward Tetracycline Degradation

Xiru Liu, Quan Zhang, Laihui Luo, Weiping Li and Peng Du

Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 16676
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Recent advances on MOFs for photocatalytic and electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to produce ammonia

Jingdan Zhao, Guangmin Ren and Xiangchao Meng

Nano Energy, 2024, 130, 110109
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Dual Z-scheme heterojunction NH2-UiO-66/BiOBr/AgI with enhanced performance on visible light driven elimination of tetracycline and Cr(VI)

Yang Qiu, Yan Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Xiaoning Wang, Tingting Lu, Qiang Wang and Zhilan Zhan

Applied Surface Science, 2023, 640, 158402
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Investigation on thermodynamic stability and electronic structure properties of Bi2CrO6 (0 0 1) surface using density functional theory

Yao Zhu, Anqi Yang, Shengshang Lu, Yilong Tian, Quan Xie and Qingquan Xiao

Computational Materials Science, 2024, 244, 113168
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Roles of facet in CuFe2O4@BiOI photocathode for the boosted O2-to-H2O2 conversion and cooperative coupling of pollutant oxidation

Xueyan Liu, Aina Ren, Qiaoyu Zou, Ziying Liu, Xiaojie Zhang and Lei Zhang

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 509, 161422
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Synthesis and photocatalytic degradation performance of BiOBr nanoflowers with tunable exposed (001) facet and band gap

Yan Zhou, Hong-jian Zhao, Fu Ma, Xu Li, Xiao-shan Miao and Zheng-bing Han

Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2024, 164, 112386
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A Perspective on Photocatalytic Synthesis of NH3, Urea, and Amino Acids by Nanomaterials: Progress and Prospects

Biswajit Bhattacharyya, Radwan M. Sarhan, Yan Lu and Andreas Taubert

ChemCatChem, 2024, 16
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