TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolutionary face-to-face 2D/2D bismuth-based heterojunction
T2 - the quest for sustainable photocatalytic applications
AU - Chong, Di Sen
AU - Foo, Joel Jie
AU - Tan, Xin-Quan
AU - Ling, Grayson Zhi Sheng
AU - Tan, Lling Lling
AU - Chen, Xingzhu
AU - Ong, Wee-Jun
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) (Ref no: FRGS/1/2020/TK0/XMU/02/1 ). The authors would also like to acknowledge the financial support provided by Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Ref no: 2021A1515111019 ) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Ref. no. 22202168 ). This work is also funded by Xiamen University Malaysia Investigatorship Grant (Grant no: IENG/0038 ), Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund ( ICOE/0001, XMUMRF/2021-C8/IENG/0041 and XMUMRF/2019-C3/IENG/0013 ), and Hengyuan International Sdn. Bhd. (Grant no: EENG/0003 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - The energy demand is rising with the global population each day. The rapid growth in the manufacturing and energy industries has hit an unhealthy mark, losing control over the emission of harmful substances. Photocatalysis is considered to be one of the sustainable technologies for addressing the aforementioned problems. Two-dimensional (2D) bismuth-based nanomaterials have attracted extensive attention stemming from their visible light absorption ability. Nevertheless, pristine materials suffer from a high charge recombination rate. Heterojunction engineering has proven to effectively improve the separation efficiency of photogenerated charge carriers. Importantly, 2D bismuth-based materials have shown accelerated charge transfer mechanisms with the intimate face-to-face contact between nanostructures and a high adsorption rate as a result of the high surface-to-volume ratio that endows abundant active sites. Therefore, it is significant to elucidate the synergy effect between heterojunction and morphology engineering of bismuth-based photocatalysts. This review aims to discuss the progress of 2D/2D bismuth-based heterojunctions to provide critical insights into the fundamental reaction mechanism, synthesis of 2D bismuth photocatalyst, and advances of 2D/2D bismuth-based heterojunction photocatalysts in energy conversion and environmental remediation. Lastly, this review is anticipated to serve as a comprehensive work to evaluate the current challenges and future research direction of 2D/2D bismuth-based heterojunction photocatalysts.
AB - The energy demand is rising with the global population each day. The rapid growth in the manufacturing and energy industries has hit an unhealthy mark, losing control over the emission of harmful substances. Photocatalysis is considered to be one of the sustainable technologies for addressing the aforementioned problems. Two-dimensional (2D) bismuth-based nanomaterials have attracted extensive attention stemming from their visible light absorption ability. Nevertheless, pristine materials suffer from a high charge recombination rate. Heterojunction engineering has proven to effectively improve the separation efficiency of photogenerated charge carriers. Importantly, 2D bismuth-based materials have shown accelerated charge transfer mechanisms with the intimate face-to-face contact between nanostructures and a high adsorption rate as a result of the high surface-to-volume ratio that endows abundant active sites. Therefore, it is significant to elucidate the synergy effect between heterojunction and morphology engineering of bismuth-based photocatalysts. This review aims to discuss the progress of 2D/2D bismuth-based heterojunctions to provide critical insights into the fundamental reaction mechanism, synthesis of 2D bismuth photocatalyst, and advances of 2D/2D bismuth-based heterojunction photocatalysts in energy conversion and environmental remediation. Lastly, this review is anticipated to serve as a comprehensive work to evaluate the current challenges and future research direction of 2D/2D bismuth-based heterojunction photocatalysts.
KW - 2D/2D heterojunction
KW - Bismuth-based nanocomposites
KW - Charge transfer process
KW - Photocatalysis
KW - Solar energy conversion
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85138437266
U2 - 10.1016/j.apmt.2022.101636
DO - 10.1016/j.apmt.2022.101636
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138437266
SN - 2352-9407
VL - 29
JO - Applied Materials Today
JF - Applied Materials Today
M1 - 101636
ER -