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Emerging Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Production

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Hydrogen has an enormous potential to become the ideal and promising energy source as it is a green, renewable and high energy density resource. It is efficiently storable and highly abundant in nature. Different approaches have been used to produce hydrogen; however, clean hydrogen production is not always green; i.e. only a few of these methods are environment-friendly. The photo-electrochemical water splitting for hydrogen production got great attention to reduce dependency on a non-renewable resource with waste minimization for clean hydrogen generation. This chapter gives a comprehensive view of different production methods and electrode materials for photocatalytic water splitting towards hydrogen production. The covered topics include different metal oxides (MOs), metal chalcogenides (MSs) and different shapes of nanocomposites, which are used for photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen production. Also, the advantages and disadvantages of the selected materials and methods for hydrogen evolution from water splitting are discussed along with their challenges and prospects.

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Priyanka Pandey is thankful to DST, New Delhi, India, for the funded project (SR/WOS-A/CS-90/2016) under the WOS-A scheme. Pravin P. Ingole is thankful to SERB-DST for the funded projects (SB/FT/CS-047/2014 and SB/EMEQ-339/2014).

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Pandey, P., Ingole, P.P. (2022). Emerging Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Production. In: Garg, S., Chandra, A. (eds) Green Photocatalytic Semiconductors. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77371-7_21

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