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Photocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation on Semiconductor Materials: Fundamentals, Latest Advances, and Future Perspective

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Photocatalysis has recently gained much scientific attention as a possible sustainable ammonia manufacture approach as an alternative to the regular Haber–Bosch process. One of the most critical problems for boosting conversion of solar to ammonia efficiency is the design of efficient photocatalysts. The bismuth-based photocatalytic for the reduction of nitrogen to ammonia has been the subject of extensive and promising study in recent years. Our study mainly summarized and discussed the recent advanced in photocatalytic nitrogen reduction to produce ammonia based on bismuth-containing semiconductors and related work. Photocatalysis using heterojunctions has recently surfaced as a possible solution to several environmental and energy issues, including nitrogen reduction to ammonia. The heterojunction photocatalysts offer the advantage of spatially separated photogenerated charge carrier and simultaneously preserving significant oxidation and reduction potentials of individual components, enabling light harvesting. The essential ideas of photocatalysis heterojunctions, the nitrogen reduction reaction mechanism, to ammonia production techniques, and the existing advantages in heterostructure and types heterostructures of photocatalysts for nitrogen reduction to ammonia are the main discussed in this chapter. Finally, key issues and promises for the specific topic of heterostructures photocatalytic nitrogen fixation are briefly discussed.

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    Merga Hailemariam Urgesa, Dwi Fortuna Anjusa Putra, Abdul Qadir, Uzair Ali Khan, Ting-Chen Huang, Yun Xuan Chiu & Jia Hung Lin

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Urgesa, M.H. et al. (2023). Photocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation on Semiconductor Materials: Fundamentals, Latest Advances, and Future Perspective. In: Abdullah, H. (eds) Photocatalytic Activities for Environmental Remediation and Energy Conversion. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6748-1_3

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