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Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials

Fundamentals, Fabrications and Water Resources Applications

  • 1st Edition - February 6, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Ajay Kumar Mishra
  • Language: English

Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials: Fundamentals, Fabrications and Water Resource Applications provides a best study and practice guide to catalysis materials, covering… Read more

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Description

Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials: Fundamentals, Fabrications and Water Resource Applications provides a best study and practice guide to catalysis materials, covering metal oxides, metal-organic frameworks, plasmonics and hybrids, their green growth and assembly techniques and their characterization. This volume establishes a broad and influential resource on fundamentals, fabrications and water resource applications. Each chapter incorporates state-of-the-art information, along with important concepts of theory and practice. The handbook will be an indispensable reference for both research communities and industry professionals.

Key features

  • Presents a compilation of up-to-date research and technology on Smart Photocatalytic Materials
  • Provides a fundamental understanding of several green synthesis methods
  • Highlights in-depth, cutting-edge knowledge on fundamentals, fabrications and water resource applications
  • Includes economical and safety aspects
  • Offers real-world applications of photocatalytic materials

Readership

University students, teachers, and researchers, especially working in areas of photocatalysis through heterogeneous catalysts. Chemical engineers, Environmental Engineers and scientists and scholars working on the management of hazardous waste; scientists working in materials science and Civil Engineers working in wastewater treatment

Table of contents

Section 1: Introduction (fundamentals of photocatalytic processes)

    1. Advanced materials for photocatalytic applications:

    the challenge ahead

    Section II Green synthesis of photocatalyst materials

    2. Green synthesis of TiO2 and its photocatalytic activity

    Section III Metal oxides photocatalytic materials 63

    3. Design and application of various visible light responsive

    metal oxide photocatalysts

    Section IV Plasmonics and hybrids photocatalytic materials

    4. Immobilization of semiconductor photocatalysts

    Section V Plasmonics and hybrids photocatalytic materials

    5. Plasmon-sensitized TiO2 nanomaterials as visible light photocatalysts

    6. Plasmon-sensitized semiconductors for photocatalysis

    Section VI Photocatalytic materials for water resources

    7. Photocatalytic materials-based membranes for efficient water treatment

      8. Current photocatalytic systems for intensified water purification applications

      9. Visible light-driven perovskite-based photocatalyst for wastewater treatment

      10. Wastewater treatment using TiO2-based photocatalysts

        11. Graphene-based hybrid photocatalysts: a promising route toward high-efficiency photocatalytic water

        remediation

        Product details

        • Edition: 1
        • Latest edition
        • Published: February 11, 2020
        • Language: English

        About the editors

        CM

        Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

        Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research focuses on sustainability, the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 200 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.

        Affiliations and expertise
        Adjunct Professor and Director of Chemistry & EVSC Labs, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA

        AM

        Ajay Kumar Mishra

        Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra is a Research Professor in the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at the University of South Africa. He obtained a B.Sc. in chemistry and a Ph.D. in bio-inorganic chemistry. His primary research interests are in nanoscience and nanotechnology, materials science, polymers, composites / nanocomposites, and water research. He is the editor of several books and published over 160 articles in international scientific journals. Prof Mishra currently awarded as Fellow and chartered scientist at a royal society of chemistry, UK
        Affiliations and expertise
        Research Professor, Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability (NanoWS) Research Unit, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

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