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More About This Title Photocatalytic Functional Materials for Environmental Remediation
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This book gathers and reviews a wide-range of ideas - from experts in the interdisciplinary fields of chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, materials science, and engineering - focusing on the development of high performance photofunctional materials for the treatment of environmental pollutants. The book contains chapters emphasizing the development of materials such as semiconductor-metal nanocomposites, layered double hydroxides, metal-organic frameworks, and polymer nanocomposites. The remainder of the book focuses on various applications, like the reduction of carbon dioxide and degradation of organic pollutants.
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Preface
Chapter 1 Titania and Carbon Nanomaterials for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dyes
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Principles of photocatalysis and mechanism
1.3 Importance of Titanium dioxide
1.4 Titanium dioxide for the photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes
1.5 Carbon nanomaterials for the photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes
1.6 Conclusions and trends
Chapter 2 Visible light photocatalytic degradation of environmental pollutants using metal oxide semiconductors
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Photocatalysi
2.3 Mechanism and fundamentals of photocatalytic reactions
2.4 Synthesis of different photocatalysts
2.5 Factors affecting in photocatalytic degradation
2.6 Metal oxides semiconductors
2.7 Ternary/ quaternary oxides
2.8 Composites semiconductors
2.9 Sensitization
2.10 Conclusions
Chapter 3 Contemporary Achievements of Visible light-driven Nanocatalysts for the Environmental Applications
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Types of photocatalytic reactor models
3.3 Modification of semiconductor nanoparticles
3.4 Emerging photocatalysts
3.5 Mechanism of photocatalysis
3.6 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Application of Nano-composites for Photocatalytic Removal of Dye Contaminants
4.1 Nanocomposites and Applications
4.2 Dyes: Introduction, Classification and Impacts on Environment
4.3 Strategies of Dye Contaminants Removal
4.4 Photo-degradation and removal of dyes using nanocomposite
4.5 Photocatalytic reactors for dye degradation
4.6 Summary
Chapter 5 Photo-Catalytic Active Silver Phosphate for Photo-Remediation of Organic Pollutants
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Properties of Ag3PO4
5.3 Photo-remediation of Pollutants
5.4 Conclusion and Future prospect
Chapter 6 Plasmonic Ag-ZnO: Charge carrier mechanisms and photocatalytic applications
6.1 ZnO based photocatalysis
6.2 Why Ag to deposit on ZnO surface?
6.3 Methods to decorate Ag NPs on ZnO surface
6.4 Mechanism of charge carrier transfer dynamics in Ag-ZnO
6.5 Influence of Ag content on optimizing the photocatalytic activity
6.6 Structure-Morphology relationship on photocatalytic activity
6.7 Co-modification of Ag-ZnO for photocatalysis
6.8 Conclusion and future prospects
Chapter 7 Multi-functional Hybrid Materials Based on Layered Double Hydroxide towards Photocatalysis
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Hybrid LDHs from LDH precursors
7.3 Photocatalytic applications of different LDH-based hybrid materials
7.4 Conclusions
Chapter 8 Magnetically separable iron-oxide based nanocomposite photocatalytic materials for environmental remediation
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Synthesis techniques of magnetic-nanophotocatalyst composite
8.3 Three types of semiconductor-magnetic based nanocomposite
8.4 Graphene based magnetic separable composite
8.5 The effect of iron oxide based photocatalyst on each pollutant
8.6 Summary
Chapter 9 Photo functional materials for environmental remediation
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Photo functional material (Photocatalyst)
9.3 Photodegradation of Textile Dyes
9.4 Semiconductor Based Photocatalysts
9.5 Carbon nanotubes (CNT)
9.7 Photo functional semiconductors on CNT hybrid material for tunable optoelectronic devices
9.8 Fabrication of CdS quantum dot sensitized solar cells using nitrogen functionalized CNTs/TiO2 nanocomposites
9.9 Graphene sheet
9.10 CdS/G Nanocomposite for Efficient Visible-light-driven Photocatalysis
9.11 Graphitic carbon nitrate (g-CN)
9.12. Conclusions
Chapter 10 Graphitic Carbon Nitride Based Nanostructured Materials for Photocatalytic Applications
10.1 Introduction
10.2 General mechanism: reaction pathway
10.3 g-C3N4 and its composite materials photocatalytic degradation
10.4 Conclusions and future directions
Chapter 11 Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Photocatalytic Environmental Remediation
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Structural features of MOFs
11.3 Synthesis of MOFs
11.4 Photocatalytic MOFs by design
11.5 Photocatalytic applications of MOFs
11.6 Conclusion and future prospects
Chapter 12 Active Materials for Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
12.1 Introduction
12.2 CO2 Photoreduction – Essentials
12.3 Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon dioxide with Water
12.4 Nano state of Materials and new Combination of Materials for Carbon dioxide Reduction
12.5 Selection of Materials
12.6 Material Modifications for Improving Efficiency
