Full-Spectrum Responsive Photocatalytic Materials

From Fundamentals to Applications

1st Edition - January 25, 2024
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
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Full-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.

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

Chuanyi Wang

Dr. Chuanyi Wang, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, is a distinguished professor at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology (SUST), PR China, serving as an academic dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering. Before moving to SUST in 2017, he was a distinguished professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), serving as Director of Laboratory of Environmental Science & Technology of Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, CAS (2010-2017). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Institute of Photographic Chemistry (now Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry) of CAS in 1998, worked in Germany (Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hannover and Free University Berlin) as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow with Prof. Detlef W. Bahnemann from 1999 to 2000, and then worked in USA (Tufts University and Missouri University-Kansas City) as a research faculty from 2000 to 2010. Currently, Dr. Wang also serves as an associate editor or editorial board member for number of international journals including Environmental Chemistry Letters and Molecular Catalysis. His research interests cover ecomaterials and environmental photocatalysis. He has published over 270 papers in peer reviewed journals with an H-index of 63. https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55796485900

Affiliations and expertise

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Weiyang District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R.China

Yanyan Duan

Dr. Yanyan Duan received her PhD degree from IMDEA Materials Institute/Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain in 2022. She received her master's degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) on 2017. She worked as a research assistant at Shenyang Institute of Automation, Guangzhou, CAS from 2017 to 2018. Her main research background lies in the area of photocatalysis and light emitting devices. https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57218330265

Affiliations and expertise

Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Environmental Purification and Functional Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Industrial Intelligence, Guangzhou, China

Lan Wang

Prof. Lan Wang received her Ph.D. from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. From 2012 to 2019, she worked in Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate professor. She was appointed as a professor in 2019 at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, PR China. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on better understanding of water pollution problems and developing green chemistry, renewable energy solutions to them for ensuring the sustainability of energy resources, both depletable and renewable. Toward that end, she has developed new clay-based 2D heterogeneous nanocatalysts by green synthetic strategy and applied in wastewater treatment by photocatalytic oxidation, and fabricated eco-friendly and portable nanomaterials based on natural polymer. https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57189297900

Affiliations and expertise

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Weiyang District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Qiuhui Zhu

Qiuhui Zhu is a PhD candidate in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Prof. Chuanyi Wang. Meanwhile, he is studying at Queen's University Belfast as a visiting scholar under the supervision of Prof. Peter K. J. Robertson. His research interest mainly focuses on the design and synthesis of full-spectrum bismuth-based photocatalysts and piezo-photocatalysts for environmental remediation and energy conversion.

Affiliations and expertise

School of Ecology and Resource Engineering, Wuyi University, China