Photocatalysis

Conversion of solar energy into fuels and chemical compounds. The group has capabilities for the preparation of metal-free photoactive materials (graphene and carbon nitrides), 2D nanomaterials (MXenes, metal chalcogenides and hydrotalcites) as well as perovskites and other oxides, sulphides and phosphides. The group characterises the band energies (XPS, Tauc plot, Mott-Schottky). Transition states are characterised by nano- and femtosecond laser flash, charge carrier density and resistance (photolelectric response and Nyquist curve) and electrochemical techniques. Many of these materials are also efficient electrocatalysts whose activity is also studied in the group.