Min-Quan Yang

TL;DR: This tutorial minireview gives a short review on the existing strategies for the synthesis of defective TiO2 with oxygen vacancies, and the defect related properties ofTiO2 including structural, electronic, optical, dissociative adsorption and reductive properties, which are intimately related to the photocatalytic performance of TiO 2.

TL;DR: Composite Photocatalysts Nan Zhang,‚‡ Min-Quan Yang,†,‡ Siqi Liu,*,‡ Yugang Sun,* and Yi-Jun Xu*,† are authors of this paper.

TL;DR: This review highlights a few problems associated with improving the photocatalytic performance of semiconductors via methodological coupling with GR and proposes that, only with the principle of designing and understanding GR-semiconductor composites from a system-level consideration, the authors might get better at imparting the power of GR with unique and transformative properties into the composite system.

TL;DR: The recent advances and current status of enhancing the photocatalytic activity and anti-photocorrosion of semiconductor ZnO by coupling with versatile carbon materials, e.g., C60, carbon nanotube, graphene and other carbon materials are described.

TL;DR: A simple and general approach to improve the transfer efficiency of photogenerated charge carriers across the interface between graphene (GR) and semiconductor CdS by introducing a small amount of metal ions as "mediator" into their interfacial layer matrix, while the intimate interfacial contact between GR andCdS is maintained.