Advances in Metal Oxides and Their Composites for Emerging Applications

Advances 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.

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
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Sagar D. Delekar