This book explores key parameters, properties and fundamental concepts of electrocatalysis. It also discusses the engineering strategies, current applications in fuel-cells, water-splitting, metal-ion batteries, and fuel generation. This book elucidates entire category viewpoints together with industrial applications. Therefore, all the sections of this book emphasize the recent advances of different types of electrocatalysts, current challenges, and state-of-the-art studies through detailed reviews. This book is the result of commitments by numerous experts in the field from various backgrounds and expertise and appeals to industrialists, researchers, scientists and in addition understudies from various teaches.

Presents the history, progress and development of electrocatalysis Special chapter on photochemical water-splitting Highlights the current technical issues in electrocatalysis

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Dr. Inamuddin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India. He has extensive research experience in multidisciplinary fields of Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Electrochemistry and, more specifically, Renewable Energy and Environment. He is a life member of the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. His research interest includes ion exchange materials, sensor for heavy metal ions, biofuel cells, supercapacitors and bending actuators.

Dr Rajender Boddula is currently working as CAS-PIFI Fellow in the CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystems and Hierarchical Fabrication, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China.His academic honors include University Grants Commission National Fellowship and many merit scholarships, study-abroad fellowships from Australian Endeavour Research fellowship and CAS-PIFI. His specialized areas of energy conversion and storage technologies, which include nanomaterials, graphene, polymer composites, heterogeneous catalysis, photoelectrocatalytic water splitting, biofuel cell, and supercapacitor applications.

Prof. Abdullah M. Asiri is the Head of the Chemistry Department at King Abdulaziz University since October 2009 and he is the founder and the Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR) since 2010 till now. He is a Professor of Organic Photochemistry. Prof. Asiri is involved in many committees at the KAU level and also on the national level, he took a major roll in the Advanced materials committee working for KACST to identify the National plan for science and technology in 2007. Prof. Asiri played a major role in advancing the chemistry education and research in KAU, he has been awarded the best Researchers from KAU for the past five years. He also awarded the Young Scientist award from the Saudi Chemical society in 2009, and alsothe first prize for the distinction in science from the Saudi chemical society in 2012. He also received a recognition certificate from the American Chemical society (Gulf region Chapter) for the advancement of chemical science in the Kingdome. Also he received a Scopus certificate for the most Publishing Scientist in Saudi Arabia in chemistry in 2008. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Pigments and Resin Technology (UK), Organic Chemistry in Sight (New Zealand), Designed Monomers & Polymers and Journal of Single Molecule Research . He is the Vice- President of Saudi Chemical Society (Western Province Branch).

Inhalt
Earth abundant elctrocatalyst. - MetalOrganic Frameworks for Electrocatalysis.- Single-Atom Electrocatalysts For Water Splitting.- Electrocatalysis: Application of nanocomposite materials.- Polymer electrocatalysis.- Oxygen Evolution Reaction.- Electrocatalysts for photochemical water-splitting.- Role of earth-abundant/carbonaceous electrocatalysts as cocatalyst for solar water splitting.- Cationic electrocatalysis in effecting the electrosynthesis of tungsten carbide nanopowders in molten salts.- Microalgae-based Systems Applied to Bioelectrocatalysis.- Current Trends in Electrodeposition of Electrocatalytic Coatings.- Carbon based Electrocatalysts.- State-of-the-Art Advances and Perspectives for Electrocatalysis.- Electrocatalysts for photoelectrochemical water splitting.- Oxygen reduction reaction.- History, progress, and development of electrocatalysis.- Characterization of Electrocatalyst.-Interface chemistry of platinum-based materials for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution in alkaline conditions.