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Emerging Energy Harvesting Technology for Electro/Photo-Catalytic Water Splitting Application
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Tang, Jianfei Liu, Tianle Miao, Sijia Cho, Yuljae |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | In recent years, we have experienced extreme climate changes due to the global warming, continuously impacting and changing our daily lives. To build a sustainable environment and society, various energy technologies have been developed and introduced. Among them, energy harvesting, converting ambient environmental energy into electrical energy, has emerged as one of the promising technologies for a variety of energy applications. In particular, a photo (electro) catalytic water splitting system, coupled with emerging energy harvesting technology, has demonstrated high device performance, demonstrating its great social impact for the development of the new water splitting system. In this review article, we introduce and discuss in detail the emerging energy-harvesting technology for photo (electro) catalytic water splitting applications. The article includes fundamentals of photocatalytic and electrocatalytic water splitting and water splitting applications coupled with the emerging energy-harvesting technologies using piezoelectric, piezo-phototronic, pyroelectric, triboelectric, and photovoltaic effects. We comprehensively deal with different mechanisms in water splitting processes with respect to the energy harvesting processes and their effect on the water splitting systems. Lastly, new opportunities in energy harvesting-assisted water splitting are introduced together with future research directions that need to be investigated for further development of new types of water splitting systems. |
| Starting Page | 142 |
| e-ISSN | 20734344 |
| DOI | 10.3390/catal11010142 |
| Journal | Catalysts |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-01-19 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Catalysts Inorganic Chemistry Energy Harvesting Piezoelectricity Pyroelectricity Triboelectricity Photovoltaics Electrocatalysis Photocatalysis Water Splitting |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
