- Title
- Metal nitride-based nanostructures for electrochemical and photocatalytic hydrogen production
- Creator
- Gujral, Harpreet Singh; Singh, Gurwinder; Baskar, Arun V.; Guan, Xinwei; Geng, Xun; Kotkondawar, Abhay V.; Rayalu, Sadhana; Kumar, Prashant; Karakoti, Ajay; Vinu, Ajayan
- Relation
- Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Vol. 23, Issue 1, p. 76-119
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2022.2029686
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- The over-dependence on fossil fuels is one of the critical issues to be addressed for combating greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen, one of the promising alternatives to fossil fuels, is renewable, carbon-free, and non-polluting gas. The complete utilization of hydrogen in every sector ranging from small to large scale could hugely benefit in mitigating climate change. One of the key aspects of the hydrogen sector is its production via cost-effective and safe ways. Electrolysis and photocatalysis are well-known processes for hydrogen production and their efficiency relies on electrocatalysts, which are generally noble metals. The usage of noble metals as catalysts makes these processes costly and their scarcity is also a limiting factor. Metal nitrides and their porous counterparts have drawn considerable attention from researchers due to their good promise for hydrogen production. Their properties such as active metal centres, nitrogen functionalities, and porous features such as surface area, pore-volume, and tunable pore size could play an important role in electrochemical and photocatalytic hydrogen production. This review focuses on the recent developments in metal nitrides from their synthesis methods point of view. Much attention is given to the emergence of new synthesis techniques, methods, and processes of synthesizing the metal nitride nanostructures. The applications of electrochemical and photocatalytic hydrogen production are summarized. Overall, this review will provide useful information to researchers working in the field of metal nitrides and their application for hydrogen production.
- Subject
- metal nitrides; porous metal nitrides; porosity; electrochemical hydrogen production; photocatalytic hydrogen production; SDG 7; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1458058
- Identifier
- uon:45392
- Identifier
- ISSN:1468-6996
- Rights
- © 2022 The Author(s). Published by National Institute for Materials Science in partnership with Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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