Environmentally Benign Photocatalysts: Applications of Titanium Oxide-based Materials

by Masakazu Anpo (Editor), Prashant V. Kamat (Editor)

Overview

Over the past few decades, mankind has observed an unprecedented and remarkable growth in industry, resulting in a more prosperous lifestyle for peoples of many countries. In developing countries, however, explosive industrial growth is just now beginning to raise the living standards of the people. Most industries, especially in these developing countries, are still powered by the burning of fossil fuels; con- quently, a lack of clean energy resources has caused environmental pollution on an unprecedented large and global scale. Toxic wastes have been relentlessly released into the air and water leading to serious and devastating environmental and health problems while endangering the planet and life itself with the effects of global warming. To address these urgent environmental issues, new catalytic and phoatalytic processes as well as open-atmospheric systems are presently being developed that can operate at room temperature while being totally clean and efficient and thus environmentally harmonious. Essential to technologies harnessing the abundant solar energy that reaches the earth are the highly functional phoatalytic proce- es that can utilize not only UV light, but also visible light.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387484419
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	11/11/2010
Series:	Nanostructure Science and Technology
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	757
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.80(d)

Table of Contents

Synthesis and Characterization Studies of Highly Active Titanium Oxide-based Phoatalysts.- Chemical Methods for the Preparation of Multifunctional Phoatalysts.- Second Generation Visible-Light-Active Phoatalysts: Preparation, Optical Properties, and Consequences of Dopants on the Band Gap Energy of TiO2.- Preparation of Titanium Oxide-Based Powders and Thin Films of High Phoatalytic Activities Using Solvothermal Methods.- Preparation of Highly Transparent TiO2-based Thin Film Phoatalysts by an Ion Engineering Method: Ionized Cluster Beam Deposition.- UV Raman Spectroscopic Studies on Titania: Phase Transformation and Significance of Surface Phase in Phoatalysis.- Photoluminescence Spectroscopic Studies on TiO2 Phoatalyst.- Surface Chemistry of TiO2 Phoatalysis and LIF Detection of OH Radicals.- Local Structures, Excited States, and Phoatalytic Reactivities of “Single-Site” Ti-Oxide Phoatalysts Constructed Within Zeolites or Mesoporous Materials.- Development of Visible Light-responsive Titanium Oxide Phoatalysts.- Visible-Light-Responsive Titanium Dioxide Phoatalysts.- Development and Sensitization of N- or S-Doped TiO2 Phoatalysts.- Visible Light-Responsive Titanium Oxide Phoatalysts: Preparations Based on Chemical Methods.- Development of Well-Defined Visible Light-Responsive TiO2 Thin Film Phoatalysts by Applying a RF-Magnetron Sputtering Deposition Method.- Phoatalytic Reactions for Environmentally-Harmonious Applications.- Photo-assisted Mineralization of the Agrochemical Pesticides Oxamyl and Methomyl and the Herbicides Diphenamid and Asulam.- Purification of Toxic Compounds in Water and Treatment of Polymeric Materials.- Development of Highly Active Titanium Oxide Phoatalysts Anchored on Silica Sheets andtheir Applications for Air Purification Systems.- Phoatalytic Application of TiO2 for Air Cleaning.- Phoatalytic Removal of Gas-Phase Elemental Mercury Using TiO2.- Phoatalytic Purification of Benzene in Air.- The Effect of Addition of Pt on the Gas Phase Phoatalysis over TiO2.- Photoreactions of Organic Compounds with TiO2 Single Crystal Surfaces.- Photo-induced Superhydrophilicity for Materials with Self-cleaning Properties.- Investigations of the Photoinduced Superhydrophilicity of the TiO2 Phoatalyst Surface by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.- Phoatalytic Water-splitting for the Evolution of H2 from H2O.- Phoatalytic Hydrogen Production from Water on Visible Light-Responsive TiO2 Thin Films Under Solar Light Irradiation.- Construction of Solid-State Thin Film Solar Cell by Applying Visible Light-Responsive TiO2 Thin Film Materials.- Phoatalytic Organic Syntheses.- Phoatalytic Transformations of Sulfur-Based Organic Compounds.- TiO2-Based Phoatalysis for Organic Synthesis.- Phoatalytic Organic Syntheses.- Renewable Energy from the Phoatalytic Reduction.- Renewable Energy from the Phoatalytic Reduction of CO2 with H2O.- Photofunctionalization.- Photofunctionalization of TiO2 for Optimal Bone-titanium Integration: A Novel Phenomenon of Super Osseointegration.- Conclusions and Emerging Applications.- Energing Applications of TiO2-Based Composites.