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Electrocatalytic and Photo-catalytic Water Splitting

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In the present time where our renewable energy sources are depleting, and sooth from industries and coal burning is making air poisonous to breathe, the need for a switch into a sustainable energy system has become a necessity. One fruitful solution to the problem is photo-electrochemical (PEC) water splitting. Implementing PEC for the power generation reduces the burden on fossil fuels for solar energy storage. The Sun being a natural and the most abundant energy source, a dilemma is how to most effectively capture that energy and store it but at the lowest cost; we would try to discuss this in the present chapter. Designing photo-electrocatalyst is one of the main challenge, keeping all the perspective of PEC in mind. Fabricating heterojunction using different functional and suitable material for PEC in a single catalyst enables to enlarge the area of light harvesting properties and enhancing water splitting efficiency by improving the photo-excited charge separation and increasing the chemical stability of the catalyst to make it viable. The chapter gives an overview on the designing of heterojunctions for enhancing PEC water splitting performance. Along with the heterojunction synthesis, recent progress in the heterojunction-based PEC system and the working mechanism behind the charge separation is also discussed in the chapter. The chapter also provides the future directions for PEC water splitting.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India

    Preeti Chaudhary & Pravin P. Ingole

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Chaudhary, P., Ingole, P.P. (2022). Electrocatalytic and Photo-catalytic Water Splitting. In: Garg, S., Chandra, A. (eds) Green Photocatalytic Semiconductors. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77371-7_22

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