Author(s)

Huanchun Wang^1,2, Lina Qiao¹, Haomin Xu¹, Yuanhua Lin^1*, Yang Shen¹, Cewen Nan¹

¹State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
²High-Tech Institute of Xi’an, Xi’an, China.

Energy band engineering and the nature of surface/interface of a semiconductor play a significant role in searching high efficiency photocatalysts. Actually, the active facets, morphology controlling, especially the exposed facets modulation of photocatalysts during preparation are very desirable. In order to achieve high photocatalytic performance, intrinsic mechanism of such anisotropic properties should be fully considered. In this review, we mainly emphasis on the latest research developments of several extensively investigated photocatalysts and their anisotropic photocatalytic properties, as well as the correlation between effective masses anisotropy and photocatalytic properties. It will be helpful to understand the photocatalytic mechanism and promote rational development of photocatalyst for wide applications.

Anisotropy, Carriers, Effective Mass, Photocatalytic Properties

Wang, H. , Qiao, L. , Xu, H. , Lin, Y. , Shen, Y. and Nan, C. (2016) Anisotropy of Photocatalytic Properties in Nanostructured Photocatalysts. Soft Nanoscience Letters, 6, 11-30. doi: 10.4236/snl.2016.62002.