Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials

Handbook of Smart Photocatalytic Materials: Fundamentals, Fabrications and Water Resource Applications provides a best study and practice guide to catalysis materials, covering metal oxides, metal-organic frameworks, plasmonics and hybrids, their green growth and assembly techniques and their characterization. This volume establishes a broad and influential resource on fundamentals, fabrications and water resource applications. Each chapter incorporates state-of-the-art information, along with important concepts of theory and practice. The handbook will be an indispensable reference for both research communities and industry professionals.

• Presents a compilation of up-to-date research and technology on Smart Photocatalytic Materials
• Provides a fundamental understanding of several green synthesis methods
• Highlights in-depth, cutting-edge knowledge on fundamentals, fabrications and water resource applications
• Includes economical and safety aspects
• Offers real-world applications of photocatalytic materials

University students, teachers, and researchers, especially working in areas of photocatalysis through heterogeneous catalysts. Chemical engineers, Environmental Engineers and scientists and scholars working on the management of hazardous waste; scientists working in materials science and Civil Engineers working in wastewater treatment

Section 1: Introduction (fundamentals of photocatalytic processes)

1. Advanced materials for photocatalytic applications:

the challenge ahead

Section II Green synthesis of photocatalyst materials

2. Green synthesis of TiO2 and its photocatalytic activity

Section III Metal oxides photocatalytic materials 63

3. Design and application of various visible light responsive

metal oxide photocatalysts

Section IV Plasmonics and hybrids photocatalytic materials

4. Immobilization of semiconductor photocatalysts

Section V Plasmonics and hybrids photocatalytic materials

5. Plasmon-sensitized TiO2 nanomaterials as visible light photocatalysts

6. Plasmon-sensitized semiconductors for photocatalysis

Section VI Photocatalytic materials for water resources

7. Photocatalytic materials-based membranes for efficient water treatment

8. Current photocatalytic systems for intensified water purification applications

9. Visible light-driven perovskite-based photocatalyst for wastewater treatment

10. Wastewater treatment using TiO2-based photocatalysts

11. Graphene-based hybrid photocatalysts: a promising route toward high-efficiency photocatalytic water

remediation