Photochemistry and photo-electrochemistry on synthetic semiconducting diamond

In this short review, we discuss the photo-relative properties, photochemical and photo-electrochemical applications of synthetic diamond materials. Synthetic diamond with semiconductive nature owns outstanding ideal properties of physics and chemistry, including high hardness, a wide bandgap, very high carrier mobility, excellent chemical stability, and inherent biocompatibility, which makes diamond promising candidate used in photochemistry and photo-electrochemistry. Diamond materials show p-type or n-type properties via doping of certain elements, which can be utilized in photo-involved chemistry for photo-synthesis, photo-catalysis, solar cells, photo-electronics, and surface modification.