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Advanced Electrochemical Materials and Devices for Clean Energy and Environment

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Zeba Khanam + 2 more
  • English
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Advanced Electrochemical Materials and Devices for Clean Energy and Environment presents recent advancements, revolutionary breakthroughs, and unraveled challenges in the development of electrochemical materials and devices for energy and environmental applications. The book discusses the latest trends in synthesis, processing, fabrication, characterization, and properties of materials. In addition, it highlights novel sustainable materials such as natural polysaccharides, biochar, plant-waste, animal-waste, other waste materials as promising substitutes for use in next-generation electrochemical devices.The book also demonstrates crossroads research where the electrochemical removal of pollutants can be coupled with the electrical energy production, such as in biological fuel cells; desalination batteries/supercapacitors; and other integrated devices. This is a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, scientists, and professionals from a variety of sectors, including electrochemists, chemical engineers, environmental scientists, materials scientists, and energy researchers across academia and industry.

Photocatalytic Perovskite Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Tariq Altalhi + 1 more
  • English
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Photocatalytic Perovskite Materials: Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science (GSPCEES) contains up-to-date information on hot topics concerning perovskite-based photocatalysts. The book gives readers an in-depth glance at photocatalysis via perovskite semiconductors and their applications in a diverse range of industries. It provides an overview of the historical development of conventional catalysis and (perovskite) photocatalysis, its challenges, strategies for improvement, and methods for synthesis and selectivity enhancement. Users will find applications for solar hydrogen production, solar-driven fuel generation, volatile organic compounds, CO2 reduction, environmental remediation, degrading organic pollutants from wastewater, and organic reactions.In addition, the book deals with photocatalytic behavior of inorganic halide perovskites, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite photocatalysts, organic-organic composite perovskite for photocatalysis, metal halide perovskite quantum dots, perovskite-based oxynitrides for photocatalysis, visible light active perovskites based photocatalysts, surface modification of perovskite materials to improve photocatalytic activity, and charge separation in perovskite nanostructures.

Photocatalysts: Synthesis and Characterization Methods

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Mohammad Mansoob Khan
  • English
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Photocatalysts: Synthesis and Characterization Methods offers a systematic overview of the synthesis and characterization of photocatalysts using various methods and techniques. This book focuses on synthesis methods, nanostructure control, activity enhancement strategies, and characterization of semiconductor-based nanostructures. This book offers guidelines for designing novel semiconductor-based photocatalysts with low cost and high efficiency to meet the demands of the efficient utilization of solar light for energy production, environment remediation, etc.In addition, this book has covered various latest and sophisticated characterization techniques. This includes various spectroscopic, physicochemical, and electrochemical characterization techniques which help the researchers to understand the characteristics of the fabricated photocatalysts.

Photothermal Materials and Membranes for Solar-Driven Water Treatment

  • 1st Edition
  • January 15, 2025
  • Jaydevsinh M. Gohil + 1 more
  • English
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Photothermal Materials and Membranes for Solar-Driven Water Treatment provides a comprehensive understanding of the chemistry of different photothermal materials, mechanistic pathways for light-to-heat energy conversion, design, and development of various 3D evaporation systems configurations, and photothermal membranes for water treatment. The book contributes to the understanding of photothermal materials to system design for efficient solar-to-heat conversion and solar-steam generation and paves the way forward to meet increasing freshwater demand through a sustainable and environmentally friendly approach. The book provides an in-depth introduction to emerging concepts such as steam generation; gives the basics of solar light and solar-light-adsorbing materials’ function, efficiency, and applications; discusses the preparation of photothermal materials and membranes; analyzes the key characteristic properties of photothermal materials; elaborates on water evaporation using nature-inspired system design; and highlights the key commercialization approaches and technologies. This book is an excellent resource for chemical engineers, materials scientists, energy technologists, environmentalists, policymakers, and regulatory bodies working on water treatment, wastewater decontamination, photothermal materials and membranes, photocatalytic materials, membrane separation, and membrane filtration.

Optical Properties of Semiconducting Nanostructures for Photocatalysis

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Ramin Yousefi
  • English
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Optical Properties of Semiconducting Nanostructures for Photocatalysis: Fundamentals, Materials Design, and Applications investigates the most important factors in improving the photocatalytic process of nanostructures. The book focuses on the key parameters that define the effective factors in the photocatalytic process by a nanostructured semiconductor: bandgap energy, structural defects, morphology, size, lifetime of the electron-hole pair created in the semiconductor by photon radiation, quantum efficiency of the nanostructured semiconductor, and surface porosity.Photocatalytic materials explored include metal-oxide and metal-chalcogenide based materials, graphene, graphite carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as a metal-free semiconductor, carbon/semiconductor nanocomposites, inorganic/organic nanocomposites, and noble metals to increase the efficiency of photocatalytic properties. This variety of semiconductor materials ensures it will be essential reading for researchers and students in the field of photocatalysis.

Ionic Liquid in Process Intensification

  • 1st Edition
  • December 13, 2024
  • Suojiang Zhang
  • English
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Ionic Liquids in Process Intensification focuses on ionic liquids to carry out process intensification research. The book uses computational simulation methods of ionic liquids, as well as the structural design, prediction and structure regulation to describe the process of ionic liquids intensify reaction, separation, photochemistry and materials synthesis related to chemical processes. It analyzes and discusses the latest research results and typical application cases and provides new research ideas and methods for the correlation of different scales from molecular to chemical engineering.Users will find a comprehensive resource that combines computational chemistry, physical chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, and many other basic and applied disciplines.

Homogeneous Isomerization, Amination and Silicon Compounds Reactions

  • 1st Edition
  • November 20, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
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Homogeneous Isomerization, Amination and Silicon Compounds Reactions, a volume in the Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis series, is separated into three parts to provide comprehensive coverage of isomerization, amination, and silicon compounds reactions with homogeneous catalysts. The first part presents isomerization of functionalized and non-functionalized alkenes. Homogeneous amination and hydroamination reactions are investigated in the second, while the final part covers homogeneous reactions of silicon compounds. The comprehensive coverage of the subject means this volume will be particularly useful to help bridge the gap between chemists and engineer’s knowledge and use of homogeneous catalysis.

Sustainable and Green Catalytic Processes for Renewable Fuel Production with Net-Zero Emissions

  • 1st Edition
  • November 20, 2024
  • Sreedevi Upadhyayula + 1 more
  • English
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Sustainable and Green Catalytic Processes for Renewable Fuel Production with Net-Zero Emissions describes the significance of catalysis for the sustainable production of biofuels and biochemicals, with a particular emphasis on the state-of-the-art catalysts and catalytic processes for "green and sustainable" production of fuels and chemicals from biomass feedstock. The book also offers a multidisciplinary, thorough, and insightful analysis of the problems that must be solved in order to develop sustainable fuel technologies and processes while also reporting on recent research developments and taking pertinent sustainability, economic, energy, and social impact issues into account.

Homogeneous Polymerization and Oligomerization Reactions

  • 1st Edition
  • October 22, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
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Homogeneous Polymerization and Oligomerization Reactions, a volume in the Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis series, covers polymerization and oligomerization reactions with homogeneous catalysts. In section one, homogeneous polymerization of alkenes, olefins, polycarbonates and polystyrene are discussed, while the second section, presents in detail homogeneous oligomerization, cyclopolymerization, dimerization, and telomerization reactions. Finally, process reactor design, industrial applications, economic assessment, and environmental challenges are discussed in-depth, making this volume of particular interest to academic researchers and industrialists.

Homogeneous Catalysts Development

  • 1st Edition
  • October 4, 2024
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
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Homogeneous Catalysts Development, a volume in the Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis series, covers hydrogenation and metathesis reactions in two separate sections. The first section is devoted to homogeneous hydrogenation reactions and related processes, including hydrogenation of alkenes, esters, olefins, etc. In the second section, the metathesis reactions of olefins, alkenes, and alkynes are presented. In addition, the industrial application of homogeneous metathesis reactions is investigated.

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