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In recent years, carbon nitride, a new type of two-dimensional (2D) material, has attracted great interest, in terms of fundamental scientific investigation and potential practical applications, for a range of energy and environmental technologies. This can be largely attributed to its optoelectronic and physicochemical properties, including moderate band gap, adjustable energy band configuration, tailor-made surface functionalities, low cost, metal-free nature, remarkable thermochemical stability, and environmentally benign manufacturing protocol.
Nanostructured Carbon Nitrides for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Applications offers a comprehensive, authoritative, and critical account of the recent progress in the development and application of multifunctional carbon nitride materials and their hybrid heterostructures. There are two major objectives of this book: first, to provide a systematic overview of the key design principles toward the fabrication of high-performance carbon nitride¿based nanostructures; and second, to provide insights into a range of clean energy technologies and environmental remediation methods that build on these nanoengineered carbon nitrides.
This book serves as an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who are interested in developing their understanding of how carbon-based nanomaterials are being used for sustainable energy and environmental applications.
List of contents
1. Synthesis and Properties of Carbon Nitride Materials
SECTION 1 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY APPLICATIONS 2. Functional Carbon Nitride Materials for Flexible Supercapacitors 3. Carbon Nitrides as Catalyst Support in Fuel Cells 4. Enhancing Microbial Fuel Cell Performance by Carbon Nitride-Based Nanocomposites 5. Solar Energy Harvesting with Carbon Nitrides
SECTION 2 ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION APPLICATIONS 6. Superior Adsorption of Environmental Contaminants onto Carbon Nitride Materials 7. Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts for Water Treatment and Purification 8. Carbon Nitride-Based Composites for Photocatalytic Abatement of Emerging Pollutants 9. Artificial Photosynthesis by Carbon Nitride-Based Composite Photocatalysts 10. Carbon nitride based optical sensors for metal ion detection
About the author
Sahmik Chowdhury is Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. His research interests are in the design and development of advanced functional materials, with an emphasis on two-dimensional (2D) materials, for sustainable energy applications and climate change mitigation.Dr. Mu. Naushad is working as a full professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Science at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include wastewater treatment, adsorption, ion exchange, bioremediation, and photodegradation. Dr. Naushad is the author and coauthor of more than 500 refereed journal publications and several books, book chapters, and US patents.
