Photogenerated charge transfer via interfacial internal electric field for significantly improved photocatalysis in direct Z-scheme oxygen-doped carbon nitrogen/CoAl-layered double hydroxide heterojunction

• Main Authors: Wu, Yan, Wang, Hou, Sun, Yuanmiao, Xiao, Tong, Tu, Wenguang, Yuan, Xingzhong, Zeng, Guangming, Li, Shuzhou, Chew, Jia Wei
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; Environmental Remediation; Internal Electric Field
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138365
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Semiconductor heterojunctions, widely applied in photocatalytic solar-to-chemical energy conversion, are advantageous for spatially separating photogenerated charge across the heterojunction boundary, inhibiting carrier recombination processes and synergistically accelerating photocatalytic reaction...