Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials: Environment, Energy, Emerging Applications and Sustainability

Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials: Environment, Energy, Emerging Applications and Sustainability provides an intriguing and useful guide to catalysis and materials. The handbook covers applications of smart photocatalytic materials for energy environmental protection and emerging fields. Also covered is the safety risk of Smart Photocatalytic Materials, commercialization, their fate and transportation in the environment, and sustainability. This volume provides a valuable roadmap, outlining common principles behind their use. Every chapter of this volume presents state-of-the-art knowledge on sustainable practices of smart photocatalytic materials (SPMs), including concepts of theory and practice.

This handbook is a valued reference for both the academic and industrial researchers looking for recent developments in the field.

Covers all aspects of recent developments in Environmental, Energy and Emerging applications of Smart Photocatalytic MaterialsFocuses on advanced applications and future research advancements of Smart Photocatalytic MaterialsEmphasizes the sustainability aspect of Smart Photocatalytic MaterialsPresents a valuable reference for researchers and students that stimulates interest in designing smart materials

Section I: Photocatalytic materials for Energy 1. Ferroelectric semiconductors for photocatalytic energy and environmental applications

Section II: Photocatalytic materials for environmental protection

2. Metal-oxide semiconductor photocatalysts for the degradation of organic contaminants 3. Different strategies of surface modification to improve the photocatalysis properties: pollutant adsorption, visible activation, and catalyst recovery 4. Sustainable photocatalytic porcelain grés slabs active under LED light for indoor depollution and bacteria reduction

5. Zinc oxide-based nanomaterials for environmental applications

6. The application of photocatalytic materials for efficient  air purification 7. Photocatalyst: mechanism, challenges, and strategy for organic contaminant degradation 8. Degradation of environmental contaminants by  topical heterogeneous photocatalysts 9. Solar photocatalysis for environmental remediation 10. Progress in the preparation of TiO2 films at boron-doped diamond toward environmenta applications

Section III: Emerging Applications of Photocatalytic materials 11. Emerging trends in photocatalytic transformation of biomass-derived glycerol into hydrogen fuel and  value-added chemicals

12.Two-dimensional MXene-based heterostructures for photocatalysis