Photoelectrochemical Engineering for Solar Harvesting

Chemistry, Materials, Devices
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-323-95494-5
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Photoelectrochemical Engineering for Solar Harvesting: Chemistry, Materials, Devices provides an up-to-date appraisal of the photon engineering of innovative catalysts for solar energy harvesting. This book analyzes the overall progress, potential challenges, and the industrialization of new catalysts in the near future. The primary emphasis is on experimental approaches from materials synthesis to device applications, however, there is also an introduction to relevant photochemistry concepts. This book is suitable for materials scientists and chemists who, through the use of photonics, are in continuous pursuit of improving the efficiencies of different devices used to capture solar energy for the generation of sustainable fuel.

Sunlight-driven fuel synthesis is the most sustainable and potentially economical option for producing energy vectors through water splitting. Thus, this book focuses on the design of photocatalysts and water oxidation catalysts, as artificial photosynthesis and hydrogen fuel production via water oxidation (in place of fossil fuels) are two promising approaches towards renewable energy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kazim, Samrana

Mathur, Sanjay

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Elektrochemie, Magnetochemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energieumwandlung, Energiespeicherung
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Solarenergie, Photovoltaik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Nuklearchemie, Photochemie, Strahlenchemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Solar fuel generation based on first-row transition metal catalysts 1
2. Au nanoparticles decorated textured Si with Fc/Fc+ and I-/I3- redox active gels for photoelectrochemical light harvesting
3. Dual photoelectrodes in photoelectrochemical water splitting
4. Metal-organic framework as light harvesting for photoelectrochemical water splitting: from fundamental to recent progress
5. Applications of metal ferrites as photocatalyst for solar fuel production, water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction
6. Redefining solar conversion: advancing technologies with metal-organic framework nanocomposites
7. Photoelectrochemical water splitting based on 2D-transition metal dichalcogenide materials
8. Perovskite materials: from synthesis to solar energy conversion applications
9. Photo-valorization of biomass into H2 fuel and value-added chemicals
10. Main group metal chalcogenides for photoelectrochemical water splitting
11. Photoelectrochemical characterization of metal oxide semiconductors for solar water splitting using intensity-modulated photocurrent spectroscopy
12. Graphitic carbon nitride-based materials for photoelectrochemical water splitting
13. Hematite (?-Fe2O3) as a solar energy harvesting photoanode for photo-electrochemical (PEC) water splitting
14. New photoelectrochemical processes for small molecule activation: the case of methane
15. Quantum dots in photoelectrochemical hydrogen production

Über Autor(innen)

Mathur, Sanjay
Dr. Sanjay Mathur is the director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Cologne in Germany. He is the Co-Director of the Institute of Renewable Energy Sources at the Xian Jiao Tong University, Xian, China and a World Class University Professor at the Chonbuk University in Korea. He also holds Visiting Professorships at the Central South University, China, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan and National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India. He has been awarded the Honorary Doctorate of the Vilnius University in 2016.

Kazim, Samrana
Dr. Samrana Kazim is an Ikerbasque fellow and Group leader at Basque Centre for Materials, Applications, and Nanostructures (UPV). Before this, she worked as a tenured senior scientist, at Abengoa Research, a corporate research center of a multinational energy company in Spain. She obtained her doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Materials chemistry. After finishing her Ph.D., she briefly worked as a post-doc at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur) and then moved to the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (IMC), Prague on an IUPAC/UNESCO fellowship and then later was a staff scientist there. She has authored over 80 research articles in reputed journals in the fields of material science, nanotechnology, and energy; also authored and edited book chapters and inventor of numerous patents in energy conversion and storage. Her research interests include synthesis and electro-optical characterization of organic semiconductors, hybrid nanostructured materials for optoelectronics applications, and perovskite solar cells.