Green Photocatalysts

This book presents advanced photocatalytic technologies for wastewater treatment. The fabrication, surface modification, roles and mechanisms of green catalysts are detailed. The catalysts include nanostructured catalysts, semiconductors, metal and non-metal doped catalysts, surface plasmon materials, graphene oxide-based materials, polymer-based composite materials, heterogenous type I and type II catalysts.

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Dr. Mu. Naushad is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D Degree in Analytical chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He has a vast research experience in the fields of Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Environmental Science. He holds several US patents, over 250 publications in the international Journals of repute, twenty book chapters and several books published by renowned international publishers. He has >5800 citations with a Google Scholar H-Index of >47. He has successfully run several research projects funded by National plan for Science and Technology (NPST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is the editor/editorial member of several reputed Journals like Scientific Report (Nature); Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier); Journal of Water Process Engineering (Elsevier) and International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health (MDPI). He is also the associate editor for Environmental Chemistry Letters (Springer) and Desalination & Water Treatment (Taylor & Francis). He has been awarded the Scientist of the year award-2015 from National Environmental Science Academy, Delhi, India and Almarai Award-2017, Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Saravanan Rajendran has received his Ph.D in Physics-Material Science in 2013 from the Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Madras, Chennai, India. He was awarded the University Research Fellowship (URF) during the year 2009-2011 by the University of Madras. After working as an Assistant Professor in Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai, India during the year of 2013-2014, he was awarded SERC and CONICYT-FONDECYT post-doctoral fellowship, University of Chile, Santiago in the year of 2014- 2017. He has worked (2017-2018) in the research group of Professor John Irvine, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the framework of a EPSRC-Global Challenges Research Fund for the removal of Blue-Green Algae and their toxins. Currently, he is working as a Research Scientist, in the School of Mechanical Engineering (EUDIM), University of Tarapacá, Arica, Chile as well as Research Associate in SERC, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. He is Associate Editor for International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (Springer). His research interests focuses in the area of nanostructured functional materials, hotophysics, surface chemistry and nanocatalysts for renewable energy and waste water purification. He has published several International peer-reviewed Journals, five book chapters and three books published by renowned international publishers.

Dr. Eric Lichtfouse (PhD), born in 1960, is an environmental chemist working at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. He has invented carbon-13 dating, a method allowing to measure the relative age and turnover of molecular organic compounds occurring in different temporal pools of any complex media. He is teaching scientific writing and communication, and has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factors, which includes a new tool the Micro-Article - to identify the novelty of research results. He is founder and Chief Editor of scientific journals and series in environmental chemistry and agriculture. He got the Analytical Chemistry Prize by the French Chemical Society, the Grand Prize of the Universities of Nancy and Metz, and a Journal Citation Award by the Essential Indicators.

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Chapter 1. Principles and mechanisms of green photocatalysisD. Durgalakshmi, Ajay Rakkesh. R, Saravanan Rajendran and Mu. Naushad
Chapter 2. Synthesizing Green Photocatalyst using Plant Leaf Extract for Water Pollutant TreatmentKavitha Shivaji, Esther Santhoshi Monica, Anitha Devadoss, D. David Kirubakaran, C. Ravi Dhas, Sagar M Jain and Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu
Chapter 3. Nanomaterials with different morphologies for photocatalysisP. Thangadurai, Rosalin Beura and J. Santhosh Kumar
Chapter 4. Metal and non-metal doped metal oxides and sulphidesPoonam Yadav, Pravin K. Dwivedi, Surendar Tonda, Rabah Boukherroub and Manjusha V. Shelke
Chapter 5. Surface plasmon-enhanced photocatalystsMohammad Ehtisham Khan, Akbar Mohammad and Moo Hwan Cho
Chapter 6. Reduced Graphene Oxide based PhotocatalysisR. Suresh, R.V. Mangalaraja, Héctor D. Mansilla, Paola Santander and Jorge Yáñez
Chapter 7. Functionalized polymer-based composite photocatalystsSebastian Raja and Luiz H. C. Mattoso
Chapter 8. Role of conducting polymer nanostructures for advanced photocatalytic applicationsDuraibabu and Y. Sasikumar
Chapter 9. Heterogenous Type I and Type II Catalysts for Degradation
J. Nimita Jebaranjitham and Baskaran Ganesh Kumar
Chapter 10. Advances and Challenges in BiOX (X: Cl, Br, I)-Based Materials for Harvesting SunlightDavid Contreras, Victoria Melin, Gabriel Pérez-González, Adolfo Henríquez and Lisdelys González