Photoelectrocatalysis
Fundamentals and Applications
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Photoelectrocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications presents a unique review of the topic that will be useful to both students and researchers who work in all scientific fields of photoelectrocatalysis, from pure chemistry, to materials and environmental chemistry. The book presents both the fundamental and applications of photoelectrocatalysis, such as hydrogen production from water splitting, remediation of harmful compounds and CO2 reduction. Photoelectrocatalytic reactors and light sources, along with kinetic aspects, photocatalysis, and electrocatalysts are covered, along with photoelectrocatalytic green chemistry which is a growing field of research.
Key Features
- Includes the fundamentals of photoelectrocatalysis
- Outlines selective photoelectrocatalytic transformations
- Reviews photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen production and CO2 reduction
- Includes photoelectrocatalytic reactors and modeling, along with kinetic aspects
Readership
Students and scientists interested in fundamentals and applications of photoelectrocatalysis /catalysis. Researchers in R&D industry
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of photoelectrocatalysis
3. The preparations of photoelectrodes
4. Photoelectrocatalytic reactors and light sources
5. Kinetic aspects of photoelectrocatalysis
6. Photoelectrocatalytic degradation of harmful compounds
7. Photoelectrocatalytic water splitting and hydrogen production
8. Photoelectrocatalytic energy applications (or fuel cells)
9. Photoelectrocatalytic CO2 reduction
10. Selective photoelectrocatalytic transformations
11. Photoelectrocatalysis in corrosion studies
12. Future perspectives
Product details
- No. of pages: 362
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2022
- Published: September 1, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128239896
About the Editors
Leonardo Palmisano
Leonardo Palmisano is a professor of chemistry at the Università di Palermo, Italy. His research focuses mainly on heterogeneous photocatalysis. He has visited many laboratories around the world and has coordinated many research projects. Prof. Palmisano has published more than 300 joint papers in international journals, about 400 papers in proceedings of national and international conferences, and many scientific and didactical books.
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Engineering, Universita di Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Sedat Yurdakal
Sedat Yurdakal was born in Birecik (Şanlıurfa, Turkey) in 1977. He received his high degree in chemistry, in 2000, at the University of Anadolu, Eskişehir, Turkey. He started to work as a Research Assistant at the University of Afyon Kocatepe, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, in 2001. He performed his Ph.D. degree thesis work at the University of Palermo, Italy, and University of Anadolu from 2003 to 2010. Currently, he works as an Associate Professor at the University of Afyon Kocatepe (Turkey). He has published several papers and reviews in international journals, a book and 4 book chapters on many different areas of Heterogenous Photocatalysis, such as selective photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic oxidations, photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic remediation of harmful compounds, thin films, photocatalytic reactor applications, and preparation of new materials containing TiO2.
He is an editor of Journal of Chemistry (SCI-Exp, I.F. 1.73) and Associate Editor of Journal of Photocatalysis. He has been also co-Editor of special issue of Catalysis Today (Heterogeneous Photocatalyis from fundamentals to possible applications, Vol. 281, 2017).
He published 47 papers in prestigious journals (most of them), 4 book chapters in Elsevier and a book on photocatalysis. He is also co-author of 1 European patent. Citations 2100 and h index 22 (SCOPUS, October 2019).
Affiliations and Expertise
University of Afyon Kocatepe, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Literature, Ahmet Necdet Sezer Campus, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey