Research progress on heterojunction composite photocatalytic material

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  • School of Petrochemical Engineering,Liaoning Petrochemical University,Fushun 113001

Received date: 2020-10-27

  Revised date: 2021-09-09

  Online published: 2021-12-31

Abstract

The existence of heterojunctions is an effective way to improve the activity of photocatalysts.Thus,people begin to make an extensive research on the structure of heterojunction and analyze the mechanism of electron-hole separation.At present,the heterojunction composite photocatalyst mainly including semiconductor/semiconductor,noble metal/semiconductor,semiconductor/metal/semiconductor are widely used in scientific research.This article made a conclusion about the structural characteristics of heterojunction composite semiconductor photocatalysts,the mechanism of photoelectron-hole transfer and photocatalytic mechanism as well as applications in Type-1 heterojunctions,Type-2 heterojunctions,p-n type heterojunctions,Schottky type heterojunctions and Z-scheme type heterojunctions.In the future,the direction to the research will still be to design and optimize composite photocatalytic materials for heterojunction systems so that we can achieve a wider range of spectral response and improve the efficiency in both the separation of photoelectron-hole pair and the utilization of solar energy.

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Geng Zhongxing, Wang Yiyue, Yang Zhanxu . Research progress on heterojunction composite photocatalytic material[J]. New Chemical Materials, 2021 , 49(12) : 269 -274 . DOI: 10.19817/j.cnki.issn 1006-3536.2021.12.057

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