Current Developments in Photocatalysis and Photocatalytic Materials

Prof. Xinchen Wang is currently the director of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, and the dean of college of chemistry in Fuzhou University. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Fuzhou University, and went to The Chinese University of Hong Kong to pursue his PhD. In 2006, he moved to Tokyo University as a JSPS post-doctor, then he went to Max Planck Institute of Colloide and Interfaces, Germany, as Alexander von Humboldt fellow, and was promoted as a Group Leader during 2008-2012. He started his professorship in Fuzhou University at 2005. His research interests cover catalysis and photocatalysis, and in this research field he published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers with H-index of 96. Prof. Masakazu Anpo is presently a Special Honor Professor & International Advisor of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University. He worked for 40 years at Osaka Prefecture University and served as Dean, Vice President & Executive Director for last 10 years and is now a Professor Emeritus. He is a pioneer in the research of photochemical reactions on solid surfaces, design of visible-light-responsive TiO2 photocatalysts, and single-site heterogeneous photocatalysts constructed within zeolites. He is the editor-in-chief of Res. Chem. Intermed. (Springer). He has published more than 100 books and 500 original peer-reviewed papers. He is a member of Academia Europaea and Science Council of Japan. Prof. Xianzhi Fu received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Peking University, China, in 1991. He did postdoctoral research on catalysis and photocatalysis at Peking University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. He joined Fuzhou University in 1997 where he was promoted to a full professor in 1998. Currently, he is the President of Fuzhou University. His research interests are mainly focused on Photocatalysis. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 40 patents. Professor Fu has won many important awards including the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2009.

• 1. Introduction2. Rutile TiO2-based New Photocatalysts for Visible-light Water Oxidation3. Factors Affecting Photocatalytic Activity of TiO24. Controllable Synthesis of TiO2: Toward an Efficient Photocatalyst5. TiO2-based Photocatalytic Conversion Processes: Insights from In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy6. Photoreduction of CO2 on non-TiO2 Based Metal Oxides7. Titania Based Photocatalyst for Dynamic Degradation of VOCs8. Solvothermal Alcoholysis Preparation of TiO2 with Tailored Structures and Enhanced Activity in Environmental and Energy Photocatalysis9. TiO2 Polymorphs for Hydrogen Photoproduction10. Progress in Fundamental Studies and Practical Applications of SrTiO3 Photocatalysts to Overall Water Splitting11. Environmental Friendly Synthesis of High Efficient Composite Type Photocatalysts12. Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 by H2O over Heterogeneous Photocatalysts13. Seizing Solar Hydrogen from Water Promoted by Magic Spin Transporting, Chiral-induced Spin State-selective Filtering, and Upconversion14. Recent Advances in the Development of Photocatalytic NOx Abatement15. ZnO Nanomaterials: Strategies for Improvement of Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Activities16. BiVO4, a Ternary Metal Oxide as an Efficient Photocatalytic Material17. Photocatalytic and Photo-Fenton-catalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants by BiFO3 (BFO) and BiVO4 (BVO) Photocatalysts under Visible-light Irradiation18. Preparation and Photocatalytic Performance of Monolayer Inorganic Oxide Nanosheets19. TiO2/carbon Composite Nanomaterials for Photocatalysis20. The Design and Development of MOF Photocatalysts and Their Applications for Water Splitting Reaction21. Light-induced Organic Transformations over some MOF Materials22. Mesoporous Silica supported Ag based-Plasmonic Photocatalysts23. Development of Metal Sulfide-based Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Under Visible Light24. Photocatalysis with Octahedral Sulphides25. Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) Supported on Metal Oxides Catalysts for Photocatalytic Reactions26. Current Development of Graphitic Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts as One of Organic Semiconducting Photocatalytic Materials27. Carbon Nitride as Photocatalyst in Organic Selective Transformations28. Heterogeneous Photocatalysis by Organic Materials: From Fundamental to Applications29. Photocatalytic Performance of Hexagonal Boron Carbon Nitride Nanomaterials30. Theoretical Studies of Two-dimensional Photocatalyst Materials31. Atomically Scale Design of Van der Waals Heterostructures as Photocatalysts