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Advances in Metal Oxides and Their Composites for Emerging Applications
- 1st Edition - August 26, 2022
- Editor: Sagar D. Delekar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 7 0 5 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 7 0 6 - 2
Advances in Metal Oxides and their Composites for Emerging Applications reviews key properties of metal-oxide based composites, including their structural, physicoch… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Metal Oxides and their Composites for Emerging Applications reviews key properties of metal-oxide based composites, including their structural, physicochemical, optical, electrical components and resulting performance in a wide range of diverse applications. Synthetic protocols used to create metal oxides with desirable morphologies, properties and performance for applications in solar energy harvesting, energy storage and environmental remediation are emphasized. Emerging technologies that address important global challenges such as energy shortage, the hazardous effects of non-renewable energy sources, unaffordable energy technologies, and the contaminants present in air and water are also covered.
This book is an ideal resource for materials scientists and engineers working in academia and R&D. In addition, it's appropriate for those who either need an introduction to potential research directions or for experienced researchers and practitioners looking for a key reference on the latest advances.
- Introduces the fundamental properties of metal oxide-based composites, paying special attention to physicochemical, optical, electrical and structural characteristics
- Provides an overview of the synthetic protocols used to design and tune the properties of metal oxide-based composites for key emerging applications
- Discusses metal oxide-based composites and their use in energy applications such as energy storage, energy harvesting and environmental remediation
Materials Scientists and Engineers, Chemists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Series editor biography
- About the editor
- Foreword
- Preface to the series
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- Part I: Introduction to metal oxide-based composites
- 1. Metal oxide engineering
- Abstract
- 1.1 Human development and metal oxides nexus
- 1.2 Metal oxide engineering: strategies and significances
- 1.3 Application of engineered metal oxides
- 1.4 Concluding remarks
- 1.5 Futuristic outlooks
- References
- 2. Metal oxide-based composites: synthesis and characterization
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Synthetic approaches
- 2.3 Characterization of metal oxide-based composite nanostructures
- 2.4 Summary and outlook
- References
- Part II: Metal oxides-based composites in energy technologies
- 3. Metal oxides as photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting: synergy of oxygen vacancy
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Role of metal oxides in photoelectrochemical hydrogen/oxygen evolution
- 3.3 Oxygen vacancy engineering in metal oxides for photoelectrochemical water splitting
- 3.4 Scope of improvement in the field
- 3.5 Conclusion
- References
- 4. Transition metal oxide–conducting polymer nanocomposites and metal-organic framework-based composites for supercapacitor application
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Energy storage device evolution
- 4.3 Market scenario
- 4.4 Types of supercapacitors
- 4.5 Electrical properties studies of energy storage devices
- 4.6 Metal oxide-conducting polymer composites for supercapacitor
- 4.7 Metal oxide-metal-organic frameworks and metal-organic frameworks derived material for supercapacitor
- 4.8 Conclusions and future outlooks
- References
- 5. Metal oxide-based nanocomposites for supercapacitive applications
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Charge storage mechanism
- 5.3 Carbon-based materials as an electrode
- 5.4 Metal oxides/metal oxide composites as an electrode in supercapacitors
- 5.5 Mixed transition metal oxides
- 5.6 Flexible supercapacitors
- 5.7 Futuristic scope
- 5.8 Conclusions
- References
- 6. Nanostructured WO3−x based advanced supercapacitors for sustainable energy applications
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Crystallographic characteristics of WO3
- 6.3 Designing nanostructured WO3 for supercapacitor application
- 6.4 Recent developments in WO3 composites for supercapacitor application
- 6.5 Conclusions
- 6.6 Future prospects
- References
- 7. Metal oxide nanomaterials for organic photovoltaic applications
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Organic photovoltaic: principle, designing and mechanism
- 7.3 Metal oxide nanomaterials
- 7.4 Properties of nanomaterials
- 7.5 Representative metal oxides used in organic photovoltaics
- 7.6 Metal oxides based organic photovoltaic studies
- 7.7 Concluding summary and future prospective
- References
- 8. Nanocrystalline metal oxide-based hybrids for third-generation solar cell technologies
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Modifications of metal oxides
- 8.3 Emerging strategies of third-generation solar cell technologies
- 8.4 Present state of art in emerging photovoltaic devices
- 8.5 Conclusion and future outlooks
- References
- 9. Role of metal oxides as photoelectrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 The operational principle of dye-sensitized photo-electrochemical cells
- 9.3 Photo-physics of dye-sensitized photo-electrochemical cells
- 9.4 Metal oxide photoanode in dye-sensitized photo-electrochemical cells
- 9.5 Metal oxide cathode in dye-sensitized photo-electrochemical cells
- 9.6 Conclusion and perspectives
- References
- 10. Nanostructured inorganic metal oxide/metal–organic framework-based electrodes for energy technologies
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Metal oxides for solar energy studies
- 10.3 Metal–organic frameworks for solar energy studies
- 10.4 Metal oxides/metal–organic frameworks nanocomposite: pros and cons
- 10.5 Metal oxide/metal–organic frameworks: present state of the art
- 10.6 Electrode designing and its features studies for energy technologies
- 10.7 Metal oxides/metal–organic frameworks nanocomposites for solar energy harvesting
- 10.8 Metal oxide/metal–organic frameworks nanocomposites for water splitting
- 10.9 Conclusion and future perspectives
- References
- Part III: Other applications of metal oxide-based composites
- 11. Metal oxide nanocomposite-based electrochemical biosensing studies
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Present scenario of biosensor market
- 11.3 Nonenzymatic electrochemical biosensors
- 11.4 Functional nanocomposites in electrochemical biosensor
- 11.5 Conclusions
- 11.6 Challenges and future perspectives
- References
- 12. Functionalized magnetic iron oxide-based composites as adsorbents for the removal of heavy metals from wastewater
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Water pollution by heavy metals and its removal
- 12.3 Magnetic nanoparticles as nanoadsorbents
- 12.4 Batch adsorption experiment
- 12.5 Removal of heavy metal ions by magnetic nanoparticles
- 12.6 Conclusions and future perspectives
- References
- 13. Mixed metal oxide nanocomposites for environmental remediation
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction: environmental remediation principles and applications
- 13.2 Types of environmental remediation
- 13.3 Semiconducting metal oxides
- 13.4 Environmental remediation: need of the hour
- 13.5 Different composites in metal oxide
- 13.6 Mixed metal oxide NCS and environmental remediation: present state of the art
- 13.7 Advanced oxidation processes or degradation processes
- 13.8 Synthesis of metal oxide nanocomposites
- 13.9 Tailoring properties of metal oxide nanocomposites
- 13.10 Protocols of mixed metal oxides used in environmental remediation
- 13.11 Monitoring of pollutants during environmental remediation
- 13.12 Concluding remarks and future perspectives
- References
- 14. Metal oxide nanocomposites in water and wastewater treatment
- Abstract
- 14.1 Water: the key to life on the earth
- 14.2 Present scenario of water pollution
- 14.3 Water treatment
- 14.4 Waste water treatment
- 14.5 Challenges
- 14.6 Nanotechnology in water and wastewater treatment
- 14.7 Use of metal-oxide nanocomposites in water and wastewater treatment
- 14.8 Features of metal oxide nanocomposite in water/wastewater treatment
- 14.9 Future prospects
- 14.10 Conclusions
- References
- 15. Self-cleaning photoactive metal oxide-based concrete surfaces for environmental remediation
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Photocatalytic mechanism of self-cleaning concretes
- 15.3 Preparation of photoactive concrete surface
- 15.4 Properties of photoactive self-cleaning concretes
- 15.5 Photocatalytic activity testing methods
- 15.6 Advantages and disadvantages of self-cleaning concretes
- 15.7 Self-cleaning photoactive concrete in real-world applications
- 15.8 Market status of photoactive materials
- 15.9 Summary and conclusions
- 15.10 Future prospects
- References
- Further reading
- 16. Metal oxide nanocomposites: design and use in antimicrobial coatings
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Microbes and microbial infectious diseases
- 16.3 Antimicrobial coatings: market scenario
- 16.4 Metal oxide nanocomposites as potential antimicrobial agents
- 16.5 Plausible mechanisms for nanocomposites-based microbes inactivation
- 16.6 Synthesis strategies for designing metal oxide nanocomposite
- 16.7 Metal oxide nanocomposites based on antimicrobial coatings in different fields
- 16.8 Conclusions
- 16.9 Future outlooks
- Acknowledgment
- References
- 17. Metal oxide composites in organic transformations
- Abstract
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Design and characterization of nanocomposites
- 17.3 Applications of metal oxide composites for organic transformations
- 17.4 Concluding remarks
- References
- 18. Metal oxide-based composites as photocatalysts
- Abstract
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Unitary metal oxides versus composite-based metal oxide photocatalysts
- 18.3 Applications of metal oxide-based photocatalysts
- 18.4 Future perspectives of metal oxide-based composites as photocatalysts
- References
- 19. Metal oxide-based composites for magnetic hyperthermia applications
- Abstract
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Present cancer treatment: pros and cons
- 19.3 Hyperthermia
- 19.4 Representative nanomaterials for magnetic hyperthermia
- 19.5 Magnetic metal oxide nanomaterials-based composites for magnetic hyperthermia application
- 19.6 Iron oxide nanoparticles and surface functionalization
- 19.7 Methods for measuring the magnetism of the magnetic materials
- 19.8 Conclusions
- 19.9 Challenges and future perspectives
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 746
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 26, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323857055
- eBook ISBN: 9780323857062
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Sagar D. Delekar
Dr. Sagar D. Delekar is presently working as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Shivaji University, Kolhapur (MS) India. Dr. Delekar obtained his Master of Science and Ph. D. degree in Chemistry from Shivaji University, Kolhapur. He has also completed a summer research fellowship at the well-reputed Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India). He is also a recipient of fast track proposals for Young Scientists as well as the prestigious Raman Fellowship sponsored by the Indian Government. Under the Raman fellowship, he worked as post-doctoral fellow with the Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. Dr. Delekar has broad research interests in the field of Inorganic Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry, and Nanomaterials for various applications such as energy harvesting, catalytic studies, and biomedical fields.
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Professor, Department of Chemistry, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, IndiaRead Advances in Metal Oxides and Their Composites for Emerging Applications on ScienceDirect