
Full-Spectrum Responsive Photocatalytic Materials
From Fundamentals to Applications
- 1st Edition - January 25, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Authors: Chuanyi Wang, Yanyan Duan, Lan Wang, Qiuhui Zhu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 6 3 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 6 3 2 - 0
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Request a sales quoteFull-Spectrum Responsive Photocatalytic Materials: From Fundamentals to Applications provides a comprehensive overview on the design, synthesis concepts, mechanisms, characterization techniques, and advances and limitations in applications of full-spectrum responsive photocatalytic materials. The book starts with the fundamentals of full-spectrum responsive materials. It then discusses the problems of most semiconductors that are not active in the whole solar spectrum and explains the benefits of utilizing full-spectrum responsive photocatalysts. Other sections describe examples of full-spectrum responsive photocatalysts classified by material types and provide the design principles and characterization protocols for these promising materials.
Photocatalysis technology based on semiconductor materials holds great promise in various fields due to its potential advantages in energy-saving, cost and environmental impact. Maximizing the utilization of solar energy is always the target of pursuits in the areas of photocatalysis, and understanding and constructing appropriate full-spectrum (UV-VIS-NIR) responsive photocatalytic materials offer ways to better realize the practical utilization of photocatalysis.
- Provides new insights into full-spectrum (UV-VIS-NIR) responsive photocatalysts and successful approaches for developing these materials
- Assists readers working to develop more efficient catalysts and establish a solid structure–activity correlation
- Suggests possibilities for the alteration of conventional photocatalysts to utilize the full spectrum of solar light
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- About the authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Photochemistry: from basic principles to photocatalysis
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The history and recent development of photocatalysis
- 1.3 Principles of photocatalysis
- 1.4 Semiconductor photocatalysts
- 1.5 Summary
- References
- 2. Introduction of full spectrum responsive photocatalytic materials
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The history and recent development of the full spectrum responsive photocatalysis
- 2.3 The working principles of the full spectrum responsive photocatalysis
- 2.4 Widely used full spectrum responsive photocatalytic materials
- 2.5 Summary and outlook
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 3. Strategies to fabricate full spectrum responsive photocatalysts
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Introducing the surface plasmon resonance effect
- 3.3 Bandgap engineering
- 3.4 Generation of oxygen vacancies
- 3.5 Doping of single and composite systems
- 3.6 Incorporation of upconverting materials
- 3.7 Implementing machine learning methods to accelerate the discovery of full spectrum responsive photocatalysts
- 3.8 Other approaches
- 3.9 The take-home message about the main features of the above strategies
- References
- 4. Synthesis of full spectrum responsive photocatalysts
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Hydrothermal/solvothermal method
- 4.3 Calcination
- 4.4 Chemical precipitation method
- 4.5 Ultrasonication
- 4.6 Sol-gel method
- 4.7 Microwave-assisted methods
- 4.8 Other methods: physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, spin-coating, etc
- 4.9 Take home message considering synthesis methods
- References
- 5. Characterization techniques for full-spectrum responsive photocatalysts
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Microscopic analysis
- 5.3 Spectroscopic analysis
- 5.4 X-ray analysis
- 5.5 Work function measurement
- 5.6 Thermal analysis
- 5.7 Density-functional theory calculations
- 5.8 Other technique methods
- 5.9 Take home message about the characterization methods
- References
- 6. Applications in environmental remediation
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Water treatment
- 6.3 Air purification
- 6.4 Summary and outlook
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 7. Applications in energy conversion
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 CO2 conversion
- 7.3 H2 evolution
- 7.4 N2 photo-fixation to NH3
- 7.5 O2 evolution
- 7.6 Photocatalytic organic transformations: intermediates of high-value chemicals
- 7.7 Summary and outlook
- References
- 8. Novel applications in drug-free sustainable photocatalytic cancer therapy
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The rise of drug-free photocatalytic cancer therapy
- 8.3 Mechanisms of drug-free photocatalytic cancer therapy
- 8.4 Evaluation criteria
- 8.5 Summary, challenges, and prospects
- References
- 9. Conclusion and outlook
- Abstract
- 9.1 Limitations of the full spectrum (UV-vis-near-infrared) responsive photocatalytic materials
- 9.2 Strategies to address the issues
- 9.3 Future opportunities and outlook
- References
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 25, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 302
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443136313
- eBook ISBN: 9780443136320
CW
Chuanyi Wang
YD
Yanyan Duan
LW
Lan Wang
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