A Review on Photocatalytic Glass Ceramics: Fundamentals, Preparation, Performance Enhancement and Future Development

Photocatalytic technology is considered as one of the most attractive and promising technologies to directly harvest, convert store renewable solar energy for generating sustainable green a broad range environmental applications. However, use photocatalyst in powder or coating forms restricts its applications due disadvantages, such difficulty recovery nano-powder, secondary pollution, low adhesion between photocatalytic substrate material, short service life film so on. The investigation application glass-ceramics (PGCs) water purification, bacterial disinfection, self-cleaning hydrogen evolution have received extensive attention their inherent advantages cost, easy fabrication, transparency, chemical mechanical stability. Real-time solutions shortage pollution faced by development human society can be provided rationally designing composition preparation methods glass ceramics (GCs). This review introduces concept crystallization mechanism PGCs expounds on basic photocatalysis. Then, key point difficulties GCs’ design are discussed, mainly including obtaining transparency controlling technologies. Different modification strategies achieve better activity highlighted. Finally, we look forward further in-depth exploration research more efficient suitable various