Metal Oxide Supported Metal Nanoparticles - Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

Metal Oxide Supported Metal Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications combines a theoretical description of the metal-oxide interface and its fabrication with the current state-of-the-art in characterization and applications. The book takes a holistic approach that allows readers to view this complex field of research from many different angles, reach new conclusions, and develop new methods and materials. It presents approaches to these materials from a diverse range of perspectives, providing a comprehensive resource for researchers in materials science, engineering, physics, and chemistry to learn about the latest developments in the field.

It addition, the book elaborates on how different synthesis techniques from different fields can be applied to metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles. Recent uses of metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles are also presented, including applications in the catalysis, photocatalysis, energy, and sensor fields.

List of contents

Part 1: Introduction in supported metal nanoparticles: Preparation and characterization
1. Electronic and atomic structure of metal nanoparticles
2. Synthesis of metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles via chemistry methods
3. Deposition of metal nanoparticles onto metal oxides via physics methods
4. Main and advanced techniques for probing metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles

Part 2: Description of supported metal nanoparticles
5. Effect of support on morphology and electronic properties of supported metal nanoparticles
6. Modelling of growth, diffusion and coalescence of supported metal nanoparticles
7. Stability and oxidation of supported metal nanoparticles
8. Reactivity study of supported metal nanoparticles
9. Supported single atoms as catalysts: deposition, characterization and application
10. Bimetallic nanoparticles: Deposition, properties and prospects for application

Part 3: Application of supported metal nanoparticles
11. The prospects for the application of supported metal nanoparticles in catalytic processes
12. Photocatalysis-related application of metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles
13. Energy-related application of metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles
14. Sensor-related application of metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles

Product details

• Assisted by: Fabiano Bernardi (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.12.2025
• EAN: 9780443300721
• ISBN: 978-0-443-30072-1
• Series: Metal Oxides
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Physics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / Semiconductors, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Chemical & Biochemical, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Metallurgy, Metals technology / metallurgy, Chemical Engineering, Materials science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering, Electronic devices and materials