Research Progress of ZnIn2S4-Based Catalysts for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The review is devoted to a promising material based on ZnIn2S4 for the photodestruction of water molecules. An elementary search in existing scientific publishing houses showed the presence of review articles that more broadly reveal the subject of the current review. The authors need to explain the lack of references to these reviews in their work and the fundamental differences from the reviews below. There are stylistic, logical and graphical errors. Publication is possible after a significant revision of the article.
Notes:
1. μmol/g/h - what is this unit?
2. Incorrect numbering of links in the logic of increasing the ordinal number
2.1. The last reference was - 36 (line 155) then numbering follows:
band gap semiconductors [30, 31, 47]. (line 159)
2.2. Links in Table 2. give in order of increasing number of links
2.3. References 68, 69, 81, 82 are listed out of order of increasing citation numbering
3. The reviewer did not see any fundamental differences in the novelty of the current review compared to the already published materials on compounds based on ZnIn2S4.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2023.116418 - References (162)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2022.08.030 - References (282)
3.1. The number of references to the literature in the current review (89) is 2-3 times less than in the above reviews. The authors refer to the MINI review [22] which has 188 references!
3.2. After an elementary comparison of the graphic abstracts of the current review with https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2023.116418, one gets the impression that the current review is a special case of a more generalized review https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb. 2023.116418
4. The balance of the equations in Scheme 2 is incorrect
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Reviewer 2 Report
The article is well written and importantly well structured. I recommend the work for publication after addressing the minor changes addressed below:
1. Rewrite the last paragraph in the abstract (lines 17-20)
2. The sentence in lines 66-69 is not clear
3. The statement in line 117-118 needs to be corrected (we need to be modified).
4. Remove the redundant terms in lines 144-146
5. Table 1 is too bulky and hard to follow. For example, the crystal phase column can be removed since all discussed examples represent hexagonal phase. This can be presented in the caption.
6. Lines 399-400 Vacancies is written several times.
7. Table 2, is too bulky and needs editorial changes. For example, the mass column can be merged with reaction solution info. AQE is not defined
8. Other minor changes including formulas (super/subscripts), spacing as Figure6 c, ..etc need special attention
Please see the suggested changes above
Author Response
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Accept in present form
