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Semiconductor-mediated photocatalysis has received tremendous attention as it holds great promise to address the worldwide energy and environmental issues. To overcome the serious drawbacks of fast charge recombination and the limited visible-light absorption of semiconductor photocatalysts, many strategies have been developed in the past few decades and the most widely used one is to develop photocatalytic heterojunctions. This review attempts to summarize the recent progress in the rational design and fabrication of heterojunction photocatalysts, such as the semiconductor-semiconductor heterojunction, the semiconductor-metal heterojunction, the semiconductor-carbon heterojunction and the multicomponent heterojunction. The photocatalytic properties of the four junction systems are also discussed in relation to the environmental and energy applications, such as degradation of pollutants, hydrogen generation and photocatalytic disinfection. This tutorial review ends with a summary and some perspectives on the challenges and new directions in this exciting and still emerging area of research.
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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
ISSN: 0306-0012
Year: 2014
Issue: 15
Volume: 43
Page: 5234-5244
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ESI Discipline: CHEMISTRY;
ESI HC Threshold:268
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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WoS CC Cited Count: 3469
SCOPUS Cited Count: 3631
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 44 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 0
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