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Metal Semiconductor Core-Shell Nanostructures for Energy and Environmental Applications provides a concise, scholarly overview of current research into the characterization of metal semiconductor core-shell nanostructures; the book shows how their properties can be best used in energy and environmental applications, particularly for solar cell and catalysis application. Coverage is also given to the effect of metal nanoparticle for charge generation or charge separation.The book is a valuable resource for academic researchers working in the areas of nanotechnology, sustainable energy and chemical engineering, and is also of great use to engineers working in photovoltaic and pollution industries.
List of contents
1. Introduction to semiconductor nanomaterial and its optical and electronics properties
Manoj Kumar Nayak Sr. and Jaswant Singh
2. Core-shell nanostructures: an insight into their synthetic approaches
Suman Singh, Vishaldeep Kaur, JYOTI SINGH and Nishant Kumar
3. Characterization of metal, semiconductor, and metal-semiconductor core-shell nanostructures
Kumud Malika Tripathi
4. Metal/semiconductor core/shell nanostructures for environmental remediation
Rajib Ghosh Chaudhuri
5. Metal-semiconductor core-shell nanomaterials for energy applications
Bhaghavathi Parambath Vinayan and Rupali Nagar
6. Metal-semiconductor core-shell nanostructured photocatalysts for environmental applications and their recycling process
Kunal Mondal
7. Metal and metal-semiconductor core-shell nanostructures for plasmonic solar cell applications
Rahul Ranjan, Narendra Singh, Mrinmoy Misra and Raju Kumar Gupta
8. Core-shell nanostructures as a platform for sensing applications
Pawan Kumar, Ki-Hyun Kim and Vasudha Bansal
About the author
Raju Kumar Gupta is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He graduated with a PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He has received several awards such as DST Inspire Faculty Award 2013, IAAM Young Scientist Award 2014 and IEI Young Engineer Award (2014-15). His research interests include surface chemistry, green synthesis of nanomaterials, high dielectric constant materials, polymer and polymer-inorganic hybrid materials for electric energy storage, hybrid perovskite solar cells, electrospinning of functional polymers and nanocomposites for environmental and energy applications. A member of several international journal editorial boards, Dr. Gupta has authored more than 30 research articles in SCI journals, 2 books and 7 book chapters.Mrinmoy Misra is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He graduated with a PhD from Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, India. He has received awards such as Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur postdoctoral fellowship, 2015, Award of science & engineering research board (SERB) National Post-Doctoral fellowship, 2016. His research interests include thin-film fabrication, nanomaterial based senor, photo catalytic materials, nanoparticle synthesis and characterization and solar cells. Dr. Misra has authored 8 research articles in SCI journals. He has also delivered papers at several international conferences.
