Band-Gap Engineered Visible Light Photocatalysts: Enabling Technologies for Sustainable Energy and the Environment

该计划将大大促进胶体化学、纳米材料和电化学方面的知识进步，并牢牢植根于前沿科学国家研究重点和环境可持续发展的澳大利亚。特别是，它解决了水和低排放能源供应的目标。这项研究的成果将推动一类新的可见光活性光催化剂的发展，这些催化剂将为氢气生产、低成本太阳能电池和利用太阳光进行净水的发展奠定基础。这些技术将改变澳大利亚的能源和环境产业，并加快从化石燃料经济向可再生能源经济的过渡。

This program will contribute significantly to knowledge advancement in colloid chemistry, nanomaterials and electrochemistry, and is firmly embedded in the National Research Priorities of Frontier Science and an Environmentally Sustainable Australia. In particular, it addresses the goals of water and low emission energy supply. The outcomes of this research will advance a new class of visible-light active photocatalysts that underpin the development of hydrogen generation, low cost solar cells and water purification using sunlight. Such technologies will transform the Australian energy and environmental industries and speed up the transition from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable energy economy.