Titanium Vacancies in TiO2 Nanofibers Enable Highly Efficient Photodriven Seawater Splitting

Yan-Xiang Zhang; Si-Ming Wu; Ge Tian; Xiao-Fang Zhao; Li-Ying Wang; Yi-Xia Yin; Lu Wu; Qian-Ni Li; Yue-Xing Zhang; Jin-Song Wu; Christoph Janiak; Kenneth I Ozoemena; Menny Shalom; Xiao-Yu Yang

doi:10.1002/chem.202103410

Titanium Vacancies in TiO₂ Nanofibers Enable Highly Efficient Photodriven Seawater Splitting

Chemistry. 2021 Oct 13;27(57):14142. doi: 10.1002/chem.202103410. Epub 2021 Sep 30.

Authors

Yan-Xiang Zhang¹, Si-Ming Wu^{2

3}, Ge Tian¹, Xiao-Fang Zhao¹, Li-Ying Wang⁴, Yi-Xia Yin¹, Lu Wu⁵, Qian-Ni Li⁵, Yue-Xing Zhang⁵, Jin-Song Wu¹, Christoph Janiak⁶, Kenneth I Ozoemena⁷, Menny Shalom⁸, Xiao-Yu Yang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for, Materials Synthesis and Processing &, School of Materials Science and Engineering &, NRC (Nanostructure Research Centre), Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, P. R. China.
² School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, 519000, P. R. China.
³ School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, P. R. China.
⁵ Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for, Advanced Organic Chemical Materials, Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratory for the Synthesis and Application of Organic Functional Molecules, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, P. R. China.
⁶ Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 40204, Germany.
⁷ Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa.
⁸ Department of Chemistry and Ilse Katz Institute for, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel.

PMID: 34590741
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103410

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are Xiao-Yu Yang and co-workers at Wuhan University of Technology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, University of the Witwatersrand, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The image depicts Ti vacancies in TiO₂ as powerful drivers of photo- and photo-electrocatalytic seawater splitting for hydrogen production. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202101817.