Advanced Materials and Coatings for Photocatalytic Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 78
Special Issue Editor
Interests: photocatalysis; heterojunction; wastewater treatment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Protecting the environment and achieving sustainable clean energy production are currently the main goals of human development policy. Photocatalysis could use durable, eco-friendly materials to solve energy and environmental problems. Photocatalysis is a technique that uses light energy to successfully initiate chemical reactions in order to breakdown harmful contaminants or produce fuels. Nonetheless, there are issues, such as the poor stability of nanocatalysts, the low efficiency of photogenerated carrier transport and separation, and unclear mechanisms of charge separation and transfer. Nanostructured photocatalysts are difficult to separate or recycle, and some metal ions from semiconductor photocatalysts are dissolved out by photocorrosion, which results in secondary pollution. Therefore, nano-sized semiconductor or polymer coatings have been grown on nanostructured photocatalysts, and these can accelerate carrier transport and separation or enhance the stability of catalysts. Therefore, cutting-edge materials and coatings have been employed to significantly increase stability and efficiency, which has accelerated the process of applying photocatalytic technology.
This Special Issue of Coatings, titled "Advanced Materials and Coatings for Photocatalytic Applications", attempts to evaluate the latest basic and advanced developments in advanced materials and coatings used in photocatalytic applications, including organic pollutant removal, wastewater treatment, VOCs and NOx elimination, H2 production, CO2 or N2 conversion, and so forth.
Dr. Zuoli He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photocatalysts
- photoactive coatings/films
- wastewater treatments
- air purification
- H2 production
- photocorrosion
- CO2 reduction
