Mimicking Natural Photosynthesis: Solar to Renewable H2 Fuel Synthesis by Z-Scheme Water Splitting Systems

Chemical Reviews

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 5201-5241

  Wang, Yiou ^a   Suzuki, Hajime ^b   Xie, Jijia ^a   Tomita, Osamu ^b   Martin, David James ^c   Higashi, Masanobu ^b   Kong, Dan ^a   Abe, Ryu ^b   Tang, Junwang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

FUTURE GENERATIONS; LEVEL EFFICIENCIES; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SPLITTING WATERS; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; VISIBLE-LIGHT-DRIVEN; WATER SPLITTING SYSTEM;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 85047500810     PISSN: 00092665     EISSN: 15206890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00286     Document Type: Review

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