scholarly journals Mechanism of enhancing visible-light photocatalytic activity of BiVO4via hybridization of graphene based on a first-principles study

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 4395-4401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxuan Chen ◽  
Xinguo Ma ◽  
Di Li ◽  
Huihu Wang ◽  
Chuyun Huang

The interface properties of the hybrid graphene/BiVO4(001) heterojunction were investigated by first-principle calculations incorporating semiempirical dispersion-correction schemes to describe correctly van der Waals interactions.

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (17) ◽  
pp. 9250-9256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junyu Lang ◽  
Yun Hang Hu

BlueP/PN with a 2D van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure was proposed and theoretically investigated to construct a Z-scheme photocatalytic system for water splitting under visible light irradiation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3279-3289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deobrat Singh ◽  
Pritam Kumar Panda ◽  
Nabil Khossossi ◽  
Yogendra Kumar Mishra ◽  
Abdelmajid Ainane ◽  
...  

The present work systematically investigates the structural, electronic, and optical properties of MoS2/Si2BN heterostructures based on first-principles calculations.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (27) ◽  
pp. 16282-16289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Shiai Xu ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
Xingliang Liu ◽  
...  

The band structure and photocatalytic activity of RE (La, Ce, Pr or Nd) mono-doped and RE–N co-doped SrTiO3 for band gap reduction are studied systematically using first principles calculations.


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