Coordination-driven innovations in low-energy catalytic processes: Advancing sustainability in chemical production

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 514, С. 215900 - 215900

Опубликована: Май 8, 2024

Catalysis stands as a cornerstone in chemical synthesis, pivotal advancing sustainable manufacturing pathways. The evolution from energy-intensive to catalytic processes has marked transformative shift, notably exemplified by low-energy methods. These processes, operating under milder conditions and emphasizing selectivity recyclability, represent the forefront of chemistry. This review navigates through an array reactions, highlighting their diverse applications culminating exploration recent strides within processes. For example, explores uses such enzyme mimicking, biodiesel production, carbon dioxide capture, organic synthesis. Additionally, it covers enzymatic catalysis photocatalysis for transformations, energy applications, water treatment. Notably, emphasizes capabilities single-atom (SAC) diatomic catalysts (DACs), recognizing exceptional performance catalyzing reactions at minimal activation energies while maintaining high efficiency mild conditions. By elucidating modulation electronic structure offering microelectronic perspective, aims elucidate mechanisms underlying activity SAC DACs. Emphasizing interplay between coordination chemistry principles efficacy, elucidates indispensable role complexes fortifying sustainability these spotlighting fusion with catalysis, this underscore collective influence shaping landscape production.

Язык: Английский

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Sustainable pollutant removal and wastewater remediation using TiO2-based nanocomposites: A critical review

Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 36, С. 101050 - 101050

Опубликована: Окт. 1, 2023

Rapid industrialization and urbanization emphasized water purification the production of carbon-neutral fuels. State-of-the-art technology that is low-cost, long-lasting, easy to implement required address these issues. In this context, substantial developments in green synthesis have provided a more efficient, effective, affordable procedure. One possible paradigm worth considering circular system purifies produces biomass. Titanium dioxide-based photocatalysts (TPs) can be great tool due their outstanding properties, which modified for improving photocatalytic activities various advanced oxidation process applications. recent years, there has been significant increase attention given development environmentally sustainable TPs. A comprehensive analysis nearly 300 academic articles study revealed shortcomings effectively utilizing The primary objective paper was gaps need filled order ensure efficient utilization TPs wastewater treatment. Accordingly, comprehensively reviewed TiO2's features, including structure, methods, activities, mechanism, structure modifications, applications, treatment cost analysis, catalysts reuse Finally, sustainability technique achieve goal economy, concept waste-to-resource introduced. implementation aforementioned approach may serve as valuable means achieving outcomes field

Язык: Английский

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Review and Outlook of Hydrogen Production through Catalytic Processes

Energy & Fuels, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 38(4), С. 2601 - 2629

Опубликована: Янв. 28, 2024

Hydrogen holds immense potential as a sustainable energy source result of its eco-friendliness and high density. Thus, hydrogen can solve the environmental challenges. However, it is crucial to produce using approaches in cost-efficient manner. Currently, be produced by utilizing diverse feedstocks, such natural gas, methane, ammonia, smaller organic molecules (methanol, ethanol, glycerol, formic acid), biomass, water. These feedstocks undergo conversion into through different catalytic processes, including steam reforming, pyrolysis, decomposition, gasification, electrolysis, photo-assisted methods (photoelectrochemical, photocatalysis, biophotolysis). Researchers have extensively explored various catalysts, metals, alloys, oxides, non-oxides, carbon-based materials, metal–organic frameworks, for these methods. The primary objectives been attain higher activity, selectivity, stability, cost effectiveness generation. efficacy processes significantly dependent upon performance emphasizing need further research development create more efficient catalysts. during production, gases like CO2, O2, CO, N2, etc. are alongside hydrogen. Separation techniques, pressure swing adsorption, metal hydride separation, membrane employed obtain high-purity Furthermore, techno-economic analysis indicates that production reforming gas/methane currently viable commercially successful. Photovoltaic electrolysis has commercialized, but still higher. Meanwhile, other phase hold future commercialization.

Язык: Английский

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Unlocking the potential of TiO2-based photocatalysts for green hydrogen energy through water-splitting: Recent advances, future perspectives and techno feasibility assessment

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 59, С. 958 - 981

Опубликована: Фев. 13, 2024

Язык: Английский

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TiO2-based photocatalytic generation of hydrogen from water and wastewater

Applied Energy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 361, С. 122932 - 122932

Опубликована: Фев. 29, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Review on inorganic and polymeric materials-coordinated metal-organic-framework photocatalysts for green hydrogen evolution

Journal of Energy Chemistry, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 92, С. 322 - 356

Опубликована: Янв. 6, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Current progress in heterojunctions based on Nb2O5 for photocatalytic water treatment and energy applications

Journal of Molecular Liquids, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 399, С. 124360 - 124360

Опубликована: Фев. 27, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Scaling up of photocatalytic systems for large-scale hydrogen generation

Applied Physics Reviews, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2025

Scaling up photocatalytic systems for large-scale hydrogen generation holds transformative potential sustainable energy but faces significant technical and economic challenges in transitioning from lab-scale experiments to industrial applications. This review delves into recent innovations that drive progress this field, including advanced materials developed improved efficiency stability, as well innovative reactor designs optimize light capture reactant flow. It also examines practical strategies the integration of these with renewable sources, focusing on their scalability cost-effectiveness. Key addressed include mass transport limitations, utilization, catalyst longevity, accompanied by emerging solutions aim overcome hurdles. The comprehensively explores intersection technological advancements feasibility, emphasizing environmental considerations necessary implementation production. Emphasizing most developments strategic approaches, outlines a pathway advancing technologies.

Язык: Английский

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Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Methanol Solutions via In Situ Ni/Pt Co-Deposition on TiO2

Journal of Composites Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 9(2), С. 68 - 68

Опубликована: Фев. 2, 2025

TiO2 is widely utilized as an excellent photocatalyst in energy production. However, its rapid electron and hole recombination confers poor photocatalytic activity. Cocatalysts are essential for increasing efficacy by introducing improved transmission enlarging the active site. Herein, degradation of aqueous methanol solution to generate hydrogen was studied with simultaneous situ deposition metals (M = Ag, Cu, Ni, Pd, Pt) on surface. Adding water incorporating a bimetallic cocatalyst enhanced production reducing electron–hole pair recombination. The metal ions could be reduced conduction band electrons metal. larger work function value favored Schottky junction formation, which contributed efficiency. Among these metal-deposited photocatalysts, maximal achieved NiPt/TiO2. optimal component 0.01 wt.% Ni/1.0 Pt TiO2. evolution NiPt/TiO2 approximately 341 1.3 times better than that pure Pt/TiO2, respectively. A potential reaction pathway from over has also been proposed.

Язык: Английский

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Recent advances in hydrogen production using metal organic frameworks and their composites

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 78, С. 303 - 324

Опубликована: Июнь 26, 2024

Язык: Английский

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