Facet-Engineered Surface and Interface Design of Photocatalytic Materials
Song Bai1, Lili Wang2, Zhengquan Li3
1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscalei ChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials) Hefei Science Center (CAS) and School of Chemistry and Materials Science University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 China; Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials College of Chemistry and Life Sciences Institute of Physical and Chemistry Zhejiang Normal University Jinhua Zhejiang 321004 China.
Abstract:
The facet-engineered surface and interface design for photocatalytic materials has been proven as a versatile approach to enhance their photocatalytic performance. This review article encompasses some recent advances in the facet engineering that has been performed to control the surface of mono-component semiconductor systems and to design the surface and interface structures of multi-component heterostructures toward photocatalytic applications. The review begins with some key points which should receive attention in the facet engineering on photocatalytic materials. We then discuss the synthetic approaches to achieve the facet control associated with the surface and interface design. In the following section, the facet-engineered surface design on mono-component photocatalytic materials is introduced, which forms a basis for the discussion on more complex systems. Subsequently, we elucidate the facet-engineered surface and interface design of multi-component photocatalytic materials. Finally, the existing challenges and future prospects are discussed.
