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Recent advances in special morphologic photocatalysts for NOx removal

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Abstract

The significant increase of NOx concentration causes severe damages to environment and human health. Light-driven photocatalytic technique affords an ideal solution for the removal of NOx at ambient conditions. To enhance the performance of NOx removal, 1D, 2D and 3D photocatalysts have been constructed as the light absorption and the separation of charge carriers can be manipulated through controlling the morphology of the photocatalyst. Related works mainly focused on the construction and modification of special morphologic photocatalyst, including element doping, heterostructure constructing, crystal facet exposing, defect sites introducing and so on. Moreover, the excellent performance of the photocatalytic NOx removal creates great awareness of the application, which has promising practical applications in NOx removal by paint (removing NOx indoor and outdoor) and pavement (degrading vehicle exhausts). For these considerations, recent advances in special morphologic photocatalysts for NOx removal was summarized and commented in this review. The purpose is to provide insights into understanding the relationship between morphology and photocatalytic performance, meanwhile, to promote the application of photocatalytic technology in NOx degradation.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21607027, 52002142, 51772118, and 51972134), the Opening Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3, No. FDLAP19007), and some Foundation of Anhui Province in China: Natural Science Foundation (Nos. 1808085J24 and 2108085MB43), the University Natural Science Research Project (No. KJ2020A0126), and the Cultivating Outstanding Talents (No. gxbjZD2020066).

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    Yang Yang & Chun Cai

  2. Key Laboratory of Green and Precise Synthetic Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Material Science, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China

    Yang Yang, Xiuzhen Zheng, Wei Ren, Jiafang Liu, Xianliang Fu, Sugang Meng & Shifu Chen

  3. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Xiuzhen Zheng

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• Systematic information of recent progress in photocatalytic NOx removal is provided.

• The photocatalysts with special morphologies are reviewed and discussed.

• The morphology and photocatalytic NOx removal performance is related.

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Yang, Y., Zheng, X., Ren, W. et al. Recent advances in special morphologic photocatalysts for NOx removal. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. 16, 137 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-022-1573-0

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