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Carbonaceous Nanostructures-Based Photocatalysts for Sustainable H2 Production

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One of the most successful approaches for sustainable energy and environmental challenges is photocatalytic hydrogen generation via solar water splitting. Photocatalytic water splitting has sparked much interest in recent era, and persistent numerous attempts have been put forward to build an efficient water splitting system. This chapter starts with an introduction to the fundamentals of photocatalytic hydrogen generation, followed by the summarization of most recent advancements of diverse heterostructure carbonaceous materials. Based on the light absorption properties, this chapter primarily emphasis the photocatalytic hydrogen production of different carbonaceous nanostructure materials which are categorized dimensionally on the basics of zero-dimensional (OD), one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D). Additionally, the chapter focuses on the advances achieved in carbonaceous photocatalyst systems based on Z-scheme systems and hybrid systems. Finally, we conclude with some views on the future of photocatalytic water splitting based on carbonaceous nanostructure material.

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Nandhakumar, E. et al. (2023). Carbonaceous Nanostructures-Based Photocatalysts for Sustainable H2 Production. In: Grace, A.N., Sonar, P., Bhardwaj, P., Chakravorty, A. (eds) Handbook of Porous Carbon Materials. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7188-4_10

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