Green Photo-Active Nanomaterials

Sustainable Energy and Environmental Remediation
Herausgeber: Nuraje, Nurxat; Mul, Guido; Asmatulu, Ramazan

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing up-to-date coverage of green nanomaterials and systems, this book provides comprehensive information on nanostructured materials, including their applications in energy and environmental sciences. The book focusses on photo-active nanostructured materials, from the basic understanding of solar energy activation to their sustainable preparation and applications in environmental remediation and fuel production from biomass and carbon dioxide. It also examines the health and environmental impacts of photo-catalyst nanomaterials. This book is an important reference for researchers and industrial chemists working in the fields of energy and environmental remediation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RSC Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781849739597
• ISBN-10: 1849739595
• Artikelnr.: 42811910

Autorenporträt

Nurxat Nuraje is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University and a Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he leads a research group on solar-driven nanostructured materials for fuel production and environmental remediation. Ramazan Asmatulu is an Associate Professor at Wichita State University. His research activities are focused on novel materials used for solar cells, batteries, nanocomposite fibres for biosensors, and nanocomposite coatings for protection of materials against corrosion and UV degradation. Guido Mul is a Professor in the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, heading the photocatalytic synthesis group. His research activities are aimed at developing innovative materials and concepts to run photocatalytic reactions with high efficiency.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Green Nanostructured Photocatalysts; Fundamentals of
Sunlight-Materials Interactions; Green Nanomaterials Preparation:
Sustainable Methods and Approaches; Natural Photosynthesis System;
Bioinspired Photocatalytic Nanomaterials; Hybrid Molecular-Nanomaterial
Assemblies for Water Splitting Catalysis; Hierarchical Nanoheterostructures
for Water Splitting; Nanophotocatalysis in Selective Transformations of
Lignocellulose-derived Molecules: A Green Approach for the Synthesis of
Fuels, Fine Chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals; Photocatalytic Carbon Dioxide
Conversion to Fuels by Novel Green Photocatalytic Materials; Hybrid
Inorganic and Organic Assembly System for Photocatalytic Conversion of
Carbon Dioxide; Biological Systems for Carbon Dioxide Reductions and
Biofuel Production; Organic Reactions using Green Photo-active
Nanomaterials; Hierarchical Nanoheterostructures: Layered Double
Hydroxide-based Photocatalysts; Health and Environmental Aspects of
Green-photoactive Nanomaterials; Risk Assessments of Green Photo-active
Nanomaterials; Energy Harvesting from Solar Energy Using Nanoscale
Pyroelectric Effects