Larisa Zolotova Solar-driven direct Z-scheme using hierarchical CdS/SiC heterostructure for enhanced photo catalytic water splitting

Due to the increasing human need for energy, science is moving towards finding a sustainable and clean alternative to meet the world’s energy needs; and among these, Photoelectrochemical and Photo catalytic Water Splitting is the best eco-friendly option! To attain an acceptable performance from overall water splitting, a photocatalyst must have a suitable band structure with sufficient redox power, and also definitely must have high separation efficiency for photo generated charge carriers, and have a sufficient number of active sites. But there are few photocatalyst that have all of these basic properties; however, a suitable and easy solution to achieve the photo catalytic reaction of this is to use the direct Z- scheme structured from two semiconductor photocatalyst.