Query: Research progress of photoelectrochemistry 

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abstract: Corrosion protection has become an important issue as the amount of infrastructure construction in marine environment increased. Photocathodic protection is a promising method to reduce the corrosion of metals, and titanium dioxide (TiO2) is the most widely used photoanode. This review summarizes the progress in TiO2 photogenerated protection in recent years. Different types of semiconductors, including sulfides, metals, metal oxides, polymers, and other materials, are used to design and modify TiO2. The strategy to dramatically improve the efficiency of photoactivity is proposed, and the mechanism is investigated in detail. Characterization methods are also introduced, including morphology testing, light absorption, photoelectrochemistry, and protected metal observation. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of TiO2 development and guide photocathodic protection.
author_names: Xiutong Wang

Hui Xu

Youbo Nan

Xin Sun

Jizhou Duan

Yan-liang Huang

Bao-rong Hou
title: Research progress of TiO2 photocathodic protection to metals in marine environment
venue: Journal of Oceanology and Limnology
year: 2020

abstract: Photocelectrochemistry is a vigorous research area in chemistry that has drawn strong interest in recent years. In this field, numerous papers are being presented, and international symposiums are frequently held. This report reviews the origins of photoelectrochemistry and its progress to date.
author_names: Kenichi Honda
title: Dawn of the evolution of photoelectrochemistry
year: 2004

abstract: This article focuses on the promise, problems and progress of utilizing hematite for photocatalyzed water oxidation. Issues which require further research are also presented.
author_names: Thomas W Hamann
title: Splitting water with rust: hematite photoelectrochemistry.
venue: Dalton transactions
year: 2012

abstract: Photoelectrochemistry is avery active research field.It is apractically applied basis for photoelectron volt cell,photolysis and photoelectricity synthesise,photoelectricity catalysis and so on.In addition,photoelectrochemistry is an important research means of studying surface action of metal oxide passivation membrane and semiconductor ultrafine powders photoelectric change mechanism too.
author_names: Luo Fang
title: Photoelectrochemistry Special Property and Study Progress
year: 2000

abstract: Research on doping iron oxide for the purpose of enhancing its photoelectrochemical properties is briefly described. (WHK)
author_names: John Hines Kennedy
title: Photoelectrochemistry at iron oxide electrodes. Progress report
year: 1980

abstract: The tremendous amount of research that has been carried out in the two closely related fields of semiconductor photoelectrochemistry and photocatalysis during the past three decades continues to provide fundamental insights and practical applications. The present review paper will attempt to describe some of the progress and resulting achievements in these two areas and to briefly discuss the future prospects. In order to provide a focal point, we will highlight work carried out in Japan over the last 5 years. However, we will try as much as possible to put this work into a global and historical context by tracing some of the key developments that have occurred outside this relatively narrow scope. We should note at the outset that we have made no attempt to cover the underlying theory or physics of photoelectrochemistry. Several excellent reviews have appeared during this same time period that cover fundamental and general aspects of photoelectrochemistry and photocatalysis.
author_names: Donald A Tryk

Akira Fujishima

Kenichi Honda
title: Recent topics in photoelectrochemistry: achievements and future prospects
year: 2000

abstract: Abstract In the past two years, foundational early stage materials research through DOE's HydroGEN Consortium has successfully brought together resources and expertise from industry, academia and the national laboratories to expedite progress in hydrogen production by water splitting. There is an enormous untapped opportunity to extract hydrogen from water using diverse thermal, chemical and electrochemical process available today at different stages of maturity that can be powered using fossil, nuclear and/or renewable energy. Ongoing development and scale up of these processes relies on continued scientific and technological innovation, including identification and optimization of new low cost, high performance materials for energy conversion, heat transfer, separations, and catalysis. The scientific innovations and accomplishments to date from HydroGEN supported research are discussed, including impressive results in thermochemistry and photoelectrochemistry, as well as low and high temperature electrolysis.
author_names: Eric L Miller

Katie Randolph

David Peterson
title: The HydroGEN Consortium: Foundational early stage water splitting research supporting diversification of the domestic hydrogen supply chain
year: 2018

abstract: Abstract Boron doped diamond materials display excellent electrochemical properties, including large potential windows, low background currents, the ability to withstand extreme potentials, and a strong tendency to resist contamination. These materials have been well studied in the field of electrochemistry by a variety of methods and advanced characterization techniques. This review highlights recent progress and achievements of boron doped diamond in photoelectrochemical applications. After surface modification of boron doped diamond (e.g. with metals, metal oxides, molecular catalysts, enzymes, etc. boron doped diamond has demonstrated excellent electrochemical and photoelectrochemical properties. Applications in the fields of photoelectrocatalysis, environmental pollutants degradation, energy conversion and (photo)electroanalysis are discussed. Moreover, the challenges and future research directions of boron doped diamond photoelectrochemistry are discussed and outlined. This review would provide valuable theoretical guidance for boron doped diamond photoelectrochemistry.
author_names: Chenyan Guo

Jingui Zheng

Hongwei Deng

Penghui Shi

Guohua Zhao
title: Photoelectrocatalytic interface of boron doped diamond: Modification, functionalization and environmental applications
year: 2020

abstract: The direct conversion of solar energy into chemical fuels, such as hydrogen, via photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting requires the efficient oxidation of water at a photoanode. While transition metal oxides have shown a significant success as photoanodes, their intrinsic limitations make them the bottleneck of PEC water splitting. Recently, initial research reports suggest that organic semiconductors (OSCs) could be possible alternative photoanode materials in both dye sensitized and thin film photoelectrode configurations. Herein we review the progress to date, with a focus on the major issues faced by OSCs: stability and low photocurrent density in aqueous photoelectrochemical conditions. An outlook to the future of OSCs in photoelectrochemistry is also given.
author_names: Arvindh Sekar

Kevin Sivula
title: Organic Semiconductors as Photoanodes for Solar driven Photoelectrochemical Fuel Production.
venue: Chimia
year: 2021

abstract: The field of heterogeneous photocatalysis has grown considerably in the decades since Fujishima and Honda's ground breaking publications of photoelectrochemistry on TiO2. Numerous review articles continue to point to both progress made in the use of heterogeneous materials (such as TiO2) to perform photoconversion processes, and the many opportunities and challenges in heterogeneous photocatalysis research such as solar energy conversion and environmental remediation. The past decade has also seen an increase in the use of molecular level approaches applied to model single crystal surfaces in an effort to obtain new insights into photocatalytic phenomena. In particular, scanning probe techniques (SPM) have enabled researchers to take a 'nanoscale' approach to photocatalysis that includes interrogation of the reactivities of specific sites and adsorbates on a model photocatalyst surface. The rutile TiO2(110) surface has become the prototypical oxide single crystal surface for fundamental studies of many interfacial phenomena. In particular, TiO2(110) has become an excellent model surface for probing photochemical and photocatalytic reactions at the molecular level. A variety of experimental approaches have emerged as being ideally suited for studying photochemical reactions on TiO2(110) including desorption oriented approaches and electronic spectroscopies, but perhaps the most promising techniques for evaluating site specific properties are those of SPM. Inmore this review, we highlight the growing use of SPM techniques in providing molecular level insights into surface photochemistry on the model photocatalyst surface of rutile TiO2(110) Our objective is to both illustrate the unique knowledge that scanning probe techniques have already provided the field of photocatalysis, and also to motivate a new generation of effort into the use of such approaches to obtain new insights into the molecular level details of photochemical events occurring at interfaces. Discussion will start with an examination of how scanning probe techniques are being used to characterize the TiO2(110) surface in ways that are relevant to photocatalysis. We will then discuss specific classes of photochemical reaction on TiO2(110) for which SPM has proven indispensible in providing unique molecular level insights, and conclude with discussion of future areas in which SPM studies may prove valuable to photocatalysis on TiO2. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences Biosciences. I.L. was partially supported by a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Chemical Imaging Initiative project. PNNL is a multiprogram national laboratory operated for DOE by Battelle. less
author_names: Michael A Henderson

I V Lyubinetsky
title: Molecular level insights into photocatalysis from scanning probe microscopy studies on TiO2(110)
venue: Chemical reviews
year: 2013