UK Semiconductor Photochemistry Network: UK-SPC

半导体光催化（SPC）是一门迅速发展的学科，与纳米技术相结合，已经在市场上产生了一些引人注目的新产品，如自清洁玻璃（例如皮尔金顿玻璃公司的活性玻璃）、瓷砖、织物、油漆和混凝土。光被用来激发半导体材料，然后能够进行广泛的反应，包括：有机物的矿化，细菌，病毒和霉菌的破坏，清除与雾蒙蒙的窗户相关的“雾”，产生燃料（如通过水分解氢）和驱动新的有机反应。英国在这一领域有许多领先的专家（学术和工业），在广泛的不同领域工作（例如新材料合成，光反应器设计，自由基基灭菌和矿化以及陶瓷膜涂层）。随着全球对SPC及其商业化的兴趣不断上升，英国通过更加一致的努力保持其世界领先地位至关重要。该网络将汇集众多不同的、国际公认的专家，形成一个活跃的、专注的社区，在一系列创新的、多学科的项目上分享信息和合作，范围从太阳能制氢到表面光消毒。该网络将通过会议、访问和培训研究人员和研究生来促进信息和专门知识的交流。专门为专家和非专家设计的网络网站将提供以下详细信息：会员资格和有用的联系、活动、相关的有用链接（例如与其他网络网站、背景文献）、工作方案、主要背景和宣传文献以及所有介绍的图书馆档案。该网络及其成员的活动不仅将通过网站，而且将在会议上- -特别是在英国举行的专门国际会议- -以及通过期刊和杂志上的出版物进行宣传。这些活动、事件和特征将导致：对半导体光化学领域的更好理解和欣赏，研究小组和行业之间的重要协同合作，加强对重要的、基于光催化剂的英国行业的学术支持，以及新的和改进的基于半导体光化学的、可销售的设备/系统。该网络将使英国在这个竞争激烈、增长迅速的领域保持并推进其在尖端研究和产品方面的领先地位。

Semiconductor photocatalysis (SPC) is a rapidly expanding subject that, combined with nanotechnology, has led to some striking new products on the market, such as self-cleaning glass (e.g. Activ from Pilkington Glass), tiles, fabrics, paint and concrete. In it light is used to excite an semiconductor material which is then able to carry out a wide range of reactions including: the mineralisation of organics, destruction of bacteria, viruses and moulds, clearing the 'fog' associated with misted windows, generation of fuels (such as hydrogen via water splitting) and driving novel organic reactions. The UK has many leading experts (academic and industrial) in this area, working in a wide range of different areas (e.g. new material synthesis, photoreactor design, radical-based sterilisation and mineralisation and ceramic film coating). With the ever-rising, global interest in SPC and its commercialisation it is important that the UK maintains its world-leading status via a more coherent effort. This Network will bring together the many, diverse, internationally-recognised experts to form an active, focussed community, to share information and collaborate on a range of innovative, multidiscipline projects, ranging from: solar hydrogen production to photosterilising surfaces. The Network will facilitate the exchange of information and expertise through meetings, visits and the training of research workers and postgraduate students. A dedicated Network website, designed to be of use to both experts and non-experts, will provide details of: membership and useful contacts, events, relevant useful links (e.g. with other Network sites, background literature), programmes of work, key background and promotional literature and a library archive of all presentations. The activities of the Network and its members will be promoted not only through website, but at conferences - in particular a dedicated international, UK-based conference - and via publications in journals and magazines. These activities, events and features will result in: a greater understanding and appreciation of the field of semiconductor photochemistry, significant synergistic collaborations between research groups and industry, enhanced academic support for the significant, photocatalyst-based UK-based industries and new and improved semiconductor photochemistry based, marketable devices/systems. The Network will allow the UK to maintain and advance its lead in both cutting-edge research and products, in this highly-competitive, rapidly growing field.