Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

   • Josep Albero, Hermenegildo García

   Pages 1-31

3. Photocatalytic Water Oxidation

   • Tanvi Gadgil, Niyaz Ibrayev, Nurxat Nuraje

   Pages 33-61

4. Heteropolyacid-Based Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Environmental Application

   • Elisa I. García-López, Giuseppe Marcì, Leonardo Palmisano

   Pages 63-107

5. Alternative Materials to TiO2

   • Ren Su, Flemming Besenbacher, Graham Hutchings

   Pages 109-149

6. 1D TiO2 Nanotube-Based Photocatalysts

   • Fang-Xing Xiao, Bin Liu

   Pages 151-173

7. Water Splitting By Photocatalytic Reduction

   • Xin Li, Jiaguo Yu

   Pages 175-210

8. Photoreactor Design Aspects and Modeling of Light

   • Paweł Mazierski, Beata Bajorowicz, Ewelina Grabowska, Adriana Zaleska-Medynska

   Pages 211-248

9. Solar–Chemical Energy Conversion by Photocatalysis

   • Lan Yuan, Nan Zhang, Yi-Jun Xu, Juan Carlos Colmenares

   Pages 249-282

10. Synthetic Applications of Titanium(IV) Oxide-Based Photocatalysts

    • Kazuya Imamura, Hiroshi Kominami

    Pages 283-320

11. Fundamentals of TiO2 Photocatalysis. Consequences for Some Environmental Applications

    • Pierre Pichat

    Pages 321-359

12. Fundamental Processes in Surface Photocatalysis on TiO2

    • Qing Guo, Chuanyao Zhou, Zhibo Ma, Zefeng Ren, Hongjun Fan, Xueming Yang

    Pages 361-416

The book explains the principles and fundamentals of photocatalysis and highlights the current developments and future potential of the green-chemistry-oriented applications of various inorganic, organic, and hybrid photocatalysts. The book consists of eleven chapters, including the principles and fundamentals of heterogeneous photocatalysis; the mechanisms and dynamics of surface photocatalysis; research on TiO₂-based composites with unique nanostructures; the latest developments and advances in exploiting photocatalyst alternatives to TiO₂; and photocatalytic materials for applications other than the traditional degradation of pollutants, such as carbon dioxide reduction, water oxidation, a complete spectrum of selective organic transformations and water splitting by photocatalytic reduction. In addition, heterogeneized polyoxometalate materials for photocatalytic purposes and the proper design of photocatalytic reactors and modeling of light are also discussed.

This book appeals to a wide readership of the academic and industrial researchers and it can also be used in the classroom for undergraduate and graduate students focusing on heterogeneous photocatalysis, sustainable chemistry, energy conversion and storage, nanotechnology, chemical engineering, environmental protection, optoelectronics, sensors, and surface and interface science.

Juan Carlos Colmenares isa Professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Yi-Jun Xu is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, China. 

• Carbon dioxide deduction
• Green reaction processes
• Heterogeneous photocatalysis
• Modeling of light
• Photoreactor design
• Titanium dioxide photocatalyst
• Water splitting
• Water oxidation
• Mechanisms and dynamics of surface photocatalysis

• Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

  Juan Carlos Colmenares

• State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China

  Yi-Jun Xu

Prof. Juan Carlos Colmenares Q. was educated in Colombia through high school, and then moved to Poland in 1991. He graduated from Warsaw University of Technology (Chem.Eng.1995) and obtained his M.Sc. (1997) in Catalysis for Organic Technology and Ph.D. (2004) in Chemical and Material Sciences from the same university and the D.Sc. degree (2015, Habilitation) from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. His interests range from materials science, nanotechnology and heterogeneous catalysis to biomass/CO₂ valorisation, solar chemicals, sonication, photocatalysis and water/air purification. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked at the University of Cordoba, Spain (2005-2006) in Prof. Marinas’s group as a post-doctoral fellow and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA) (2006-2009) in Prof. G.A. Olah (Nobel Prize in Chemistry) group as a post-doctoral research associate. He is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. He is serving as an expert evaluator for many important scientific journals or institutions as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Sustainable Chemical Processes journal (Chemistry Central). He has co-authored more than 50 works in international scientific journals and books, and filed two patent applications.

Prof. Yi-Jun Xu received his Ph.D. in heterogeneous catalysis at the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University,

UK in 2006 with Prof. Graham J. Hutchings (FLSW FRS). From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany. After that, he joined the faculty as a Minjiang Scholar Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, P.R. China. His current research interests are mainly focused on synthesizing nanostructured materials, including graphene-based composites, core-shell nanostructured materials, one-dimensional composites and defective semiconductors, and exploring their various applications in the area of heterogeneous photocatalysis. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He is selected in the top 1% of highly cited authors in Royal Society of Chemistry journals in 2014 and selected in the 2014 China highly cited scholars list of SCOPUS Database. He has published more than 120 works in international scientific journals and books, which include 6 ESI 0.1% hot papers, 34 ESI highly cited papers and 13 papers highlighted as the cover art of different journals. He is serving as an expert evaluator for many important scientific journals.

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