Uv-Visible Photocatalysis for Clean Energy Production and Pollution Remediation: Materials, Reaction Mechanisms, and Applications

UV-Visible Photocatalysis for Clean Energy Production and Pollution Remediation

Comprehensive resource detailing fundamentals of photocatalysis, clean energy production, and pollution treatment, as well as recent developments in each field

UV-Visible Photocatalysis for Clean Energy Production and Pollution RemediationMaterials, Reaction Mechanisms, and Applications provides current developments in photocatalytic reactions for both inorganic and organic-based materials which operate under UV-visible light or sunlight irradiation, with a focus on the fundamentals and applications in clean energy production and pollution remediation.

The text curates interesting and important research surrounding photocatalysis for hydrogen production, including the fundamentals and photocatalytic remediation of our better environments, which covers the reduction of CO₂ and fixation of N₂ with H₂O under UV-visible light or sunlight irradiation. The first chapter of the book introduces these diverse subjects by including a brief history of the developments of photocatalysis research since around the 1960s.

Specific sample topics covered in this book include:

• Visible-light active photocatalysts in pollutant degradation and conversion with simultaneous hydrogen production
• Application of S-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst and the role of the defects on the photocatalytic reactions on ZnO
• Strategies for promoting overall water splitting with particulate photocatalysts via single-step visible-light photoexcitation
• Polymeric carbon nitride-based materials in aqueous suspensions for water photo-splitting and photo-reforming of biomass aqueous solutions to generate H₂
• Visible light-responsive TiO₂ thin film photocatalysts for the separate evolution of H₂ and O₂ from water

For chemists, scientists, physicists, and engineers across a wide range of disciplines, UV-Visible Photocatalysis for Clean Energy Production and Pollution Remediation is an essential resource for understanding current developments in photocatalytic reactions on both inorganic and organic-based materials which operate under UV-visible light or sunlight irradiation.

Prof. Xinchen Wang is currently the Vice President of Fuzhou University, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment as well as the Dean of College of Chemistry of Fuzhou University. He obtained his BSc and MSc at Fuzhou University and PhD at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2006, he moved to The University of Tokyo as a JSPS fellow and then Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interfaces as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, and was promoted as a Group Leader during 2008-2012. He started his professorship in Fuzhou University at 2005. He is a pioneer in the research of the water splitting using g-C3N4 photocatalyst. His research interests cover catalysis and photocatalysis, and he published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers with H-index of 96.
Prof. Masakazu Anpo is presently a Special Honor Professor & International Advisor of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University. He worked for 40 years at Osaka Prefecture University and served as Dean, Vice President & Executive Director for the past 10 years and is now a Professor Emeritus. He is a pioneer in the research of photochemical reactions on solid surfaces, design of visible-light-responsive TiO2 photocatalysts, and single-site heterogeneous photocatalysts constructed within zeolites. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Res. Chem. Intermed. (Springer). He has published more than 100 books and 500 original peer-reviewed papers. He is a member of Academia Europaea and Science Council of Japan, and Honorary Fellow of Chinese Chemical Society.
Professor Xianzhi Fu received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Peking University, China, in 1991. He did postdoctoral research on catalysis and photocatalysis at Peking University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. He joined Fuzhou University in 1997 where he was promoted to a full professor in 1998. He is the President of Fuzhou University since 2012. He is a pioneer in the research of photocatalysis in China. His research interests are mainly focused on photocatalysis. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 40 patents. Professor Fu has won many important awards including the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2009.