
Nanostructured Photocatalysts
From Fundamental to Practical Applications
- 1st Edition - June 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Van-Huy Nguyen, Dai-Viet N. Vo, Sonil Nanda
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 0 0 7 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 5 9 6 - 6
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Request a sales quoteNanostructured Photocatalysts: From Fundamental to Practical Applications offers a good opportunity for academic, industrial researchers and engineers to gain insights on the fundamental principles and updated knowledge on the engineering aspects and various practical applications of photocatalysis. This book comprehensively and systematically reviews photocatalytic fundamental aspects, ranging from reaction mechanism, kinetic modeling, nanocatalyst synthesis and design, essential material characterization using advanced techniques, and novel reactor design and scale-up. Future perspectives, techno-economical evaluation and lifecycle assessment of photocatalytic processes are also provided.
Finally, a wide range of practical, important and emerging photocatalytic applications, namely wastewater treatment, air pollution remediation, renewable and green energy generation, and vital chemical production are thoroughly covered, making this book useful and beneficial for engineers, scientists, academic researchers, undergraduates and postgraduates.
- Provides a fundamental understanding of photocatalysis
- Covers all aspects of recent developments in photocatalytic processes and photocatalytic materials
- Focuses on advanced photocatalytic applications and future research advancements on energy, environment, biomedical, and other specialty fields
- Contains contributions from leading international experts in photocatalysis
- Presents a valuable reference for academic and industrial researchers, scientists and engineers
Section I: Introduction and Fundamental Studies
1. Introduction
2. Kinetic and mass-transfer analysis in continuous photocatalytic reactors
3. Reaction mechanism for photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutant
4. Radical species in photocatalysis: Generate, detect and measure
5. Metal clusters and nanoparticles in photocatalysis: advances and challenge
Section II: Practical Applications on Agricultural-, Energy-, Environment-, Medical-related Fields
6. Future prospects and challenges of photocatalysis for POPs degradation
7. Plasmonic photocatalyst for hydrogen energy generation
8. Photo(electro)catalysts for two-electron oxygen reduction reactions
9. Photoelectrochemical oxidation of water and degradation of pollutants using simple Bi-based metal oxide semiconductors under visible light irradiation
10. Floating photocatalysts: Buoyancy generation from bio-degradable polymers
11. Evaluation of the photosensitization/photocatalytic process for the degradation of pharmaceutical compound
12. Recent advancement in red phosphorus and sulphur based photocatalytic systems for waste-water treatment
13. Metal organic framework photocatalysts for carbon dioxide reduction
14. Nanostructured photoactive coatings for bacterial inactivation at the solid-air interface
15. Black phosphorous-based photocatalysts: synthesis, characterization and applications
16. Synthesis, characterization and applications of photocatalysts containing carbon species
17. Solar driven bicarbonate conversion to formate via earth abundant semiconductor nanostructures
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 25, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 580
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128230077
- eBook ISBN: 9780128235966
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Van-Huy Nguyen
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Dai-Viet N. Vo
Dai-Viet N. Vo is deputy director of the Institute of Applied Technology and Sustainable Development, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, in Vietnam. He worked as the principal investigator and co-investigator for 23 different funded research projects related to sustainable and alternative energy, and published two books, 15 book chapters, more than 300 peer-reviewed journals including 101 prestigious review articles, and more than 80 conference proceedings. Dr. Vo is an assistant subject editor for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier) and guest editor for several special issues in high-impact factor journals such as the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier), Comptes Rendus Chimie (Elsevier), Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier), and Topics in Catalysis (Springer), amongst others.
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