
Carbon-Based Metal Free Catalysts
Preparation, Structural and Morphological Property and Application
- 1st Edition - May 11, 2022
- Editors: Abdullah Mohammed Ah Asiri, Anish Khan, Showkat Ahmad Bhawani, Bahaa Mohamed Mahmoud Abu-Zied, Suchart Siengchin, Hurija Dzudzevic-Cancar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 8 5 1 5 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 8 5 1 8 - 8
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Request a sales quoteCarbon-Based Metal Free Catalysts: Preparation, Structural and Morphological Property and Application covers the different aspects of carbon-based metal free catalysts, including the fabrication of catalysts from natural sources and carbon allotropes, their manufacturing and design, characterization techniques, and applications. Special features in the book include illustrations and tables which summarize up-to-date information on research carried out on manufacturing, design, characterization and applications of metal free catalysts. This book assembles the information and knowledge on metal free catalysts and emphasizes the concept of green technology in the field of manufacturing and design.
It is an ideal reference source for lecturers, students, researchers and industrialists working in the field of new catalyst development, especially polymer composites and is a valuable reference book handbook for teaching, learning, and research.
- Describes the design on metal-free catalysts
- Includes manufacturing technique of carbon-based metal free catalysts
- Lists applications of carbon-based metal free catalysts
- Discusses the characterization of carbon-based metal free catalysts
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- 1. Nanocarbon-based metal-free catalysts: types, preparation, and applications
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Classification of carbon-based metal-free catalysts and their preparation methods
- 3. Applications of carbon-based metal-free catalysts
- 4. Conclusions and perspective
- 2. Carbon-based metal-free catalysts for catalytic reforming of methane (CH4) with carbon dioxide (CO2)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Catalytic methane–carbon dioxide reforming by carbon materials
- 3. Carbon catalyst characterization
- 4. Kinetics and reforming reaction mechanism
- 5. Conclusions
- 3. Metal-free catalysts for fuel cell applications
- 1. Fuel cells: overview and necessity
- 2. Methanol electrooxidation
- 3. Oxygen reduction reaction
- 4. Conclusion
- 4. Metal-free catalysts for hydrogen production
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Metal-free catalysts
- 3. Hydrogen sources
- 4. Hydrogen production
- 5. Characterization techniques
- 6. Conclusion
- 5. Role of activated carbon for metal-free catalysts
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Gas evolution by electrochemical reaction
- 3. Oxidation-reduction reaction
- 4. Catalytic dry reforming of carbon dioxide and methane
- 5. Hydrogen generation for ammonia production
- 6. Dehydrogenation reactions
- 7. Deoxygenation reaction
- 8. Conclusion
- 6. Carbon-based metal-free catalysts for photocatalytic reactions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A brief introduction to carbon nitride as a metal-free photocatalyst
- 3. Carbon-based metal-free photocatalysts
- 4. Carbon-based metal-free quantum dots in photocatalysis
- 5. Conclusion
- 7. Heterogeneous carbon metal-free catalysts: a conceptual perspective
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Catalyst: definition with classic examples
- 3. Nature, accessibility, and concentration of the active sites of heterogeneous catalysts
- 4. Chemical reactions catalyzed by metal-free carbon
- 5. Main types of metal-free carbon-based catalysts
- 6. Conclusions
- 8. Electrocatalysis with metal-free carbon-based catalysts
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Carbon materials
- 3. Carbon materials as metal-free electrocatalysts
- 4. Conclusions and outlook
- 9. Role of activated carbons as metal-free catalysts
- 1. Activated carbons
- 2. Activated carbon as a metal-free catalyst
- 3. Metal-free activated carbon catalysts for energy
- 4. Metal-free activated carbon catalysts for environmental remediation
- 5. Metal-free activated carbon in other catalytic processes
- 6. Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 11, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323885157
- eBook ISBN: 9780323885188
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Abdullah Mohammed Ah Asiri
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Anish Khan
Dr. Anish Khan is currently working as Assistant Professor in Chemistry Department, Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Completed Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 2010. Completed Postdoctoral from School of Chemical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia (USM) in Electroanalytical chemistry in 2010. Working in the field of synthetic biosensor, polymer composites, organic–inorganic electrically conducting nanocomposites. More than 200 research articles, 70 book chapters 30 books published in referred international publisher and more than 20 international conferences/ workshop. More than 30 research projects completed. Editorial board member of more than 11 international journals. Member of American Nano Society.
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Showkat Ahmad Bhawani
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Bahaa Mohamed Mahmoud Abu-Zied
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Suchart Siengchin
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