Nanostructured Titanium Dioxide in Photocatalysis

Herausgeber: Low, It-Meng; de la Prida Pidal, Victor Manuel; Albetran, Hani Manssor

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the fundamentals of photocatalysis in nanostructured TiO2. The factors affecting photocatalytic activity, design, and preparation procedures of various forms of nanostructured TiO2 are described together with their numerous applications in the fields of energy and environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9789814877077
• ISBN-10: 9814877077
• Artikelnr.: 60605358

Autorenporträt

It-Meng Low is currently an adjunct professor of applied physics at Curtin University, Australia. He earned his PhD in materials engineering from Monash University, Australia. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship in mechanical engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia, he became a lecturer of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He then moved to Curtin University as a lecturer of materials engineering and was promoted to senior lecturer, associate professor, and then full professor. He has authored or coauthored nearly 20 books and more than 190 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Hani Manssor Albetran is an assistant professor at the Department of Basic Sciences, College of Education, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (formerly known as University of Dammam), Saudi Arabia. He received his BSc from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He earned his MSc and PhD from Curtin University, Australia. He has also been a teacher with the Ministry of Education, a teaching assistant at King Faisal University, and a lecturer at the University of Dammam. He has authored or coauthored 27 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals. Victor Manuel de la Prida Pidal is a full professor of applied physics at the University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. He had earned his PhD from the same university. He has authored or coauthored 1 book, around 10 book chapters, and more than 160 research papers in journals of international repute. He has presented over 250 scientific communications in national and international conferences and has been the leading scientist in around 19 of the 25 international, national, and regional research. Fong Kwong Yam is an associate professor and chairperson of Engineering Physics program (from Jan 2017 till now) at the School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. He received his BSc (Hons) in physics (1992) and MSc in materials science and engineering (1999) from USM and the National University of Singapore (NUS), respectively. He obtained his PhD from USM in 2007, and has been working there since then. He has authored or co-authored 1 book, 2 book chapters, and more than 250 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction and Background 1 Introduction and Literature Review
Part II: Methodologies 2 Material Synthesis and Methologies 3
Characterization Techniques Part III: Materials Characterization 4 In-situ
Isothermal High-Temperature Diffraction Studies on Crystallization, Phase
Transformation, and Activation Energies in Anodized Titania Nanotubes 5
Effect of Calcination on Band Gaps for Electrospun Titania Nanofibers
Heated in Air-Argon Mixtures 6 Characterization and Optimization of
Electrospun TiO2/PVP Nanofibers Using Taguchi Design of Experiment Method 7
Effect of Pressure on TiO2 Crystallization Kinetics Using In-situ Sealed
Capillary High Temperature Synchrotron Radiation Diffraction 8
Characterization of Chemical Bath-Deposited TiO2 Thin Films 9 Electrolyte
and Temperature Influence on Anodic Nanotubes Part IV: Materials Properties
and Applications 10 Phase Transformations and Crystallisation Kinetics of
Electronspun TiO2 Nanofibers in Air and Argon Atmospheres 11 Effect of
Vanadium Ion Implantation on the Crystallization Kinetics and Phase
Transformation of Electrospun TiO2 Nanofibers 12 A Comparative Study of
Crystallization Behaviour, Phase Stability, and Binding Energy in Pure and
Cr-Doped TiO2 Nanotubes 13 Effect of Indium Ion Implantation on
Crystallization Kinetics and Phase Transformation of Anodized Titania
Nanotubes 14 Ni Nanowires Grown in Anodic TiO2 Nanotube Arrays As Diluted
Magnetic Semiconductor Nanocomposites 15 Applications of Nanostructured
TiO2 Part V: Conclusions 16 Summary and Conclusions