In an interview, Ajay Pisat, Doctoral Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University with Chemical Today Magazine talks at length about his research on improving the efficiency of photocatalytic water splitting process on perovskite family.
Advisors: Gregory Rohrer (Department Head and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering) and Paul Salvador (Professor of Materials Science & Engineering) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Research Insight.
My current project broadly focuses on improving the efficiency of the photocatalytic water splitting process. Photocatalysis, in general, means using light to make a chemical reaction happen or speed it up. The photocatalyst absorbs light of a certain energy range and gives this energy to its electrons to make them available for reaction. In this process, electrons want to try to go to the non-excited states. There are six factors to having a good photocatalyst, and my research focuses on two of them. Those are preventing electrons from going back to non-excited states and separating different types of reactions on different areas of the photocatalyst.
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