title: Efficient visible driven photocatalyst, silver phosphate: performance, understanding and perspective.
abstract: Photocatalysis is a promising technology that can contribute to renewable energy production from water and water purification. In order to further develop the field and meet industrial requirements, it is imperative to focus on advancing high efficiency visible light photocatalysts, such as silver phosphate (Ag3PO4). This review aims to highlight the recent progress made in the field, focusing on oxygen production from water, and organic contaminant decomposition using Ag3PO4. The most important advances are discussed and explained in detail, including semiconductor-semiconductor junctions, metal-semiconductor junctions, exposing facet control, and fundamental understanding using advanced spectroscopies and computational chemistry. The review then concludes by critically summarising both findings and current perspectives, and ultimately how the field might best advance in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK. junwang.tang@ucl.ac.uk and Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.
authors.forename: David James
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: Environmental Remediation Materials Unit and International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp and Graduate School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: Guigao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK. junwang.tang@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Savio J A
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Moniz
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis & Selective Oxidation, National Engineering Research Center for Fine Petrochemical Intermediates, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Lanzhou 730000, China.
authors.forename: Yingpu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK and Research Complex at Harwell, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0FA, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Beale
authors.affiliation: Environmental Remediation Materials Unit and International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Jinhua.YE@nims.go.jp and Graduate School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: Jinhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK. junwang.tang@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Junwang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tang