Black Phosphorus: Critical Review and Potential for Water Splitting Photocatalyst.
A century after its first synthesis in 1914, black phosphorus has been attracting significant attention as a promising two-dimensional material in recent years due to its unique properties. Nowadays, with the development of its exfoliation method, there are extensive applications of black phosphorus in transistors, batteries and optoelectronics. Though, because of its hardship in mass production and stability problems, the potential of the black phosphorus in various fields is left unexplored. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of crystal structure, electronic, optical properties and synthesis of black phosphorus. Recent research works about the applications of black phosphorus is summarized. Among them, the possibility of black phosphorous as a solar water splitting photocatalyst is mainly discussed and the feasible novel structure of photocatalysts based on black phosphorous is proposed.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea. sunshinety@snu.ac.kr.
Tae Hyung
TH
Lee
School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea. sooyoungkim@cau.ac.kr.
Soo Young
SY
Kim
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea. hwjang@snu.ac.kr.
Ho Won
HW
Jang
2 dimensional (2D) material; black phosphorus; optoelectronic; photocatalyst; solar water splitting