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Vanadium Oxide Materials

Synthesis, Properties, and Emerging Applications

  • 1st Edition - April 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Peter R. Makgwane, Ankur Jain, Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu, Bhekie B. Mamba
  • Language: English

Vanadium Oxide Materials: Synthesis, Properties, and Emerging Applications presents the current state of the art in the design of vanadium oxides, associated composites, and hetero… Read more

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Description

Vanadium Oxide Materials: Synthesis, Properties, and Emerging Applications presents the current state of the art in the design of vanadium oxides, associated composites, and heterostructure derivatives, including their respective applications in electronic devices, environmental catalysis, energy generation and storage, chemical conversion catalysis, and biomedical remediation. The chapters present a fundamental exploration of structure properties, materials design strategies, and the practical applications of vanadium oxides, providing an in-depth understanding of structure–activity performance relationships of vanadium- and vanadium oxide-containing materials. Furthermore, the chapters briefly highlight the commercial or industrial aspects of technologies integrating vanadium oxides as innovative enabling materials. The book considers a wide range of uses for vanadium and its oxides, including materials-integrated electronic devices (such as electrochemical biosensors, gas chemical sensors, photodetectors, and diodes), diversified catalytic-driven technology processes involving energy generation and storage, environmental remediations (such as pollutant detection and removal or elimination), and chemical conversions from fossil and renewable sources.

Key features

  • Presents fundamental theory alongside a host of practical applications of vanadium- and vanadium oxide-containing materials
  • Offers strategies for designing novel vanadium oxide-based materials with for high-performance applications in electronic devices as well as energy, environmental, biomedical, and chemical processes
  • Explores the use of vanadium as an earth-abundant metal to assist with mitigating climate change
  • Assesses the potential for various emerging applications to scale up from the laboratory to potential product integration

Readership

Researchers and professionals working with vanadium oxide in the fields of materials science, environmental science, electronic engineering, chemical engineering, biomedical science

Table of contents

Part 1 Introduction and Fundamentals

1. Introduction of vanadium oxide materials and synthesis strategies

2. Surface to molecular structure interfaces of vanadium oxides and their heterostructures

3. Ternary vanadium oxides: synthesis strategies and structure properties

4. Vanadium chalcogenides, carbides and nitrides material synthesis and structure-property 5. relationships

5. Vanadium oxides thin films: transparent and conductive materials

6. Advanced characterization techniques of vanadium oxides based materials

7. Computational and simulation studies of vanadium oxides and containing materials to optimize active structures design

Part 2 Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices

8. Vanadium oxides in chromic and electrochromic applications

9. Vanadium oxides and containing materials in electronic photodetectors

10. Vanadium oxides with smart switching devices

11. Vanadium oxides, vanadates and their heterostructures in gas chemical sensing

12. Vanadium oxides and vanadates in electrochemical detection and biosensing

13. Vanadium carbides and chalcogenides in electrochemical detection and biosensing

14. Vanadium oxides based physical sensors and actuators

Part 3 Energy Storage

15. Vanadium oxide engineered batteries

16. Vanadium carbide and chalcogenides in battery energy storage

17. Vanadium containing materials for supercapacitor energy storage

Part 4 Vanadium in Solar and Photo Energy

18. Vanadium-containing materials in solar cells energy generation

19. Vanadium containing catalysts in water splitting reactions for hydrogen generation

20. Vanadium chalcogenides, carbides and heterostructures in water-splitting reactions for hydrogen production

21. Vanadium oxides and compounds in photo(electro)catalytic nitrogen conversion to ammonia

22. Vanadium oxides, vanadates, chalcogenides and carbides in photo(electro)catalytic CO2 reduction

Part 5 Chemical Conversions Using Vanadium Catalysts

23. Vanadium oxide and supported catalysts in gas and liquid chemical conversions

24. Vanadium phosphorous oxides catalysts in gas and liquid phase chemical conversions

25. Photocatalytic organic chemical conversions with vanadium oxides and vanadates catalysts

Part 7 Environmental Applications

26. Vanadium oxides and metal vanadates in the remediation of contaminants

27. Vanadium oxides in the abatement of gaseous air pollutants

28. Vanadium containing composites in gas separation, sorption and storage

Part 8 Biomedical Applications

29. Vanadium oxides and containing materials in biomedical applications

30. Vanadium based biosensors for biological and medical applications

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Peter R. Makgwane

Peter R. Makgwane is currently a Full Professor at the University of South Africa (UNISA) Institute of Catalysis and Energy Solutions (ICES). He previously worked as a Principal Scientist (2011-2023) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, South Africa), focusing on catalysis and advanced energy materials. He is a prominent scholar in heterogeneous photocatalysis and electrocatalysis with extensive publications of articles, including six books with major publishers, Elsevier, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley, on advanced materials design and catalytic processes for sustainable energy, renewable chemicals, and environmental catalysis.

Affiliations and expertise
Head of the Institute of Catalysis and Energy Solutions, College of Science Engineering and Technology (CSET), University of South Africa, South Africa

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Ankur Jain

Ankur Jain is Head of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Storage, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. His research interest focuses on developing energy storage materials with particular attention on hydrogen energy, ammonia, and anode/electrolytes material for all solid-state Li-ion batteries.
Affiliations and expertise
Head, Centre for Renewable Energy and Storage, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India

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Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu

Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences and an Associate Director for Energy Materials and Technology at the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) at Heriot-Watt University, UK.  His research interests lie in developing catalysts from lab to system integration for green hydrogen generation (electrochemical and photoelectrochemical) from freshwater and industrial wastewater.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK

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Bhekie B. Mamba

Bhekie B. Mamba is Executive Dean of the University of South Africa’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Florida, South Africa. His research interest is in nanotechnology, polymer chemistry, and water treatment technologies, focusing on creating sustainable solutions that will ensure that water resources are maintained and preserved for future generations.
Affiliations and expertise
Executive Dean, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa