A review based on bismuth oxyhalides materials for photocatalysis

Photocatalytic solar-energy transformation is the most encouraging corridor for the environmental crisis and energy scarcity. Bismuth oxyhalide (BiOX) is the emerging class of materials that exhibit photocatalytic properties, such as the resilient response of light which causes to enhance energy conversion (solar energy) owing to their exceptional layered structure and attractive band structure as well. The present review presents the summarized results from the recent devolution of the BiOX-based class tuning and design to improve energy conversion. In particular, the BiOX preparation and tuning approaches that have the potential to enhance photocatalytic behavior and some other techniques, such as elemental doping, have been addressed that impede the rapid recombination and formation of oxygen vacancies that are facilitated in the improvement of photocatalytic reaction. Various campsite frameworks are also presented and display the significance of BiOX-based nanocomposites. In the end, the main challenges, as well as opportunities for the material based upon BiOX concerning their future progress, are demonstrated. This review will provide an extended understanding, and offer a preferred direction for the innovative designing of material that is based on BiOX concerning environmental and especially energy-based applications.