Metallic Copper‐Containing Composite Photocatalysts: Fundamental, Materials Design, and Photoredox Applications

Abstract

The preparation strategies of copper-based composites mainly have two forms: One is depositing metallic copper on or coupling the copper with the substrate materials with different phases to form two-phase or multiphase composites; the other is growing other materials on copper surface to obtain the composites with two or more phases. Therefore, the first synthesis strategy mainly depends on the formation method of metallic

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Recent advances in the heterogeneous photochemical synthesis of C–N bonds

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Impact of Postprocessing Approaches and Interface Cocatalysts Regulation on Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution of Protonic Titanate Derived TiO2 Nanostructures

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