Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials - Fundamentals, Fabrications and Water Resources Applications

Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials: Fundamentals, Fabrications and Water Resource Applications provides a best study and practice guide to catalysis materials, covering metal oxides, metal-organic frameworks, plasmonics and hybrids, their green growth and assembly techniques and their characterization. This volume establishes a broad and influential resource on fundamentals, fabrications and water resource applications. Each chapter incorporates state-of-the-art information, along with important concepts of theory and practice. The handbook will be an indispensable reference for both research communities and industry professionals.

List of contents

Section 1: Introduction (fundamentals of photocatalytic processes)

1. Advanced materials for photocatalytic applications:
the challenge ahead
Section II Green synthesis of photocatalyst materials

2. Green synthesis of TiO2 and its photocatalytic activity
Section III Metal oxides photocatalytic materials 63

3. Design and application of various visible light responsive

metal oxide photocatalysts
Section IV Plasmonics and hybrids photocatalytic materials
4. Immobilization of semiconductor photocatalysts
Section V Plasmonics and hybrids photocatalytic materials

5. Plasmon-sensitized TiO2 nanomaterials as visible light photocatalysts
6. Plasmon-sensitized semiconductors for photocatalysis
Section VI Photocatalytic materials for water resources

7. Photocatalytic materials-based membranes for efficient water treatment

8. Current photocatalytic systems for intensified water purification applications
9. Visible light-driven perovskite-based photocatalyst for wastewater treatment
10. Wastewater treatment using TiO2-based photocatalysts

11. Graphene-based hybrid photocatalysts: a promising route toward high-efficiency photocatalytic water
remediation




About the author

Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an adjunct professor and lab director in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), United States. His research is focused on sustainability, nanotechnology & advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of several books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.
Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra is a Research Professor in the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at the University of South Africa. He obtained a B.Sc. in chemistry and a Ph.D. in bio-inorganic chemistry. His primary research interests are in nanoscience and nanotechnology, materials science, polymers, composites / nanocomposites, and water research. He is the editor of several books and published over 160 articles in international scientific journals. Prof Mishra currently awarded as Fellow and chartered scientist at a royal society of chemistry, UK

Product details

• Assisted by: Ajay Kumar (Research Professor Mishra (Editor), Mishra Ajay Kumar (Editor), Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain (Editor), Chaudhery (Adjunct Professor and Director of laboratories Mustansar Hussain (Editor), Chaudhery (Adjunct Professor and Lab Director Mustansar Hussain (Editor), Chaudhery (New Jersey Institute of Technology Mustansar Hussain (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2020
• EAN: 9780128190517
• ISBN: 978-0-12-819051-7
• Weight: 360 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Chemical engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Chemical & Biochemical, Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering