Solar Coatings Group

Our chemical vapour deposition of large-scale bismuth vanadate based photoelectrodes (left) for evaluation in a solar water splitting prototype developed in collaboration with the Hankin Group (right)

Our chemical vapour deposition of the various layers of our high performance solar water splitting photoelectrodes; tungsten trioxide (left), annealed tungsten trioxide (middle), bismuth vanadate coated onto tungsten trioxide (right)

Scanning electron microscopy of our high performance solar water splitting photoelectrodes; tungsten trioxide nanoneedles (left), bismuth vanadate coated onto tungsten trioxide (middle), side-on image of bismuth vanadate coated onto tungsten trioxide (right)

Our air pollution simulation chamber for measuring the efficacy of our photocatalysts towards nitrogen oxide pollution

A typical measurement of photocatalytic activity using our Air Pollution Simulation Chamber (left) with the relationship between synthesis method and activity for titanium dioxide coatings on glass produced using chemical vapour deposition (right)

The relationship between synthesis method, surface roughness and nitrogen oxide removal activity for a series of titanium dioxide coatings on glass produced using chemical vapour deposition (left) and a correlation map between various physicochemical properties and activity (right)

A scheme showing the concept and application of combinatorial chemical vapour deposition to produce a library of composite materials (tungsten trioxide and titanium dioxide) and the use of high-throughput mapping tools to assess their activity towards solar water splitting