Investigation into high efficiency visible light photocatalysts for water reduction and oxidation [electronic resource] / David James Martin.
Martin, David James, author.
2015
QD716.P45 M37 2015eb
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Title Investigation into high efficiency visible light photocatalysts for water reduction and oxidation [electronic resource] / David James Martin.
Author Martin, David James, author.
ISBN 9783319184883 electronic book
3319184881 electronic book
9783319184876
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18488-3
Published Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 149 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-18488-3 doi
Call Number QD716.P45 M37 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 541/.395
Summary This thesis describes novel strategies for the rational design of several cutting-edge high-efficiency photocatalysts, for applications such as water photooxidation, reduction, and overall splitting using a Z-Scheme system. As such, it focuses on efficient strategies for reducing energy loss by controlling charge transfer and separation, including novel faceted forms of silver phosphate for water photooxidation at record high rates, surface-basic highly polymerised graphitic carbon nitride for extremely efficient hydrogen production, and the first example of overall water splitting using a graphitic carbon nitride-based Z-Scheme system. Photocatalytic water splitting using solar irradiation can potentially offer a zero-carbon renewable energy source, yielding hydrogen and oxygen as clean products. These two ?solar? products can be used directly in fuel cells or combustion to provide clean electricity or other energy. Alternatively they can be utilised as separate entities for feedstock-based reactions, and are considered to be the two cornerstones of hydrogenation and oxidation reactions, including the production of methanol as a safe/portable fuel, or conventional catalytic reactions such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and ethylene oxide production. The main driving force behind the investigation is the fact that no photocatalyst system has yet reported combined high efficiency, high stability, and cost effectiveness; though cheap and stable, most suffer from low efficiency.
Note "Doctoral thesis accepted by the University College London, UK."
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 22, 2015).
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Introduction: Fundamentals of Water Splitting and Literature Survey
Experimental Development
Oxygen Evolving Photocatalyst Development
Hydrogen Evolving Photocatalyst Development
Novel Z-Scheme Overall Water Splitting Systems
Overall Conclusions and Future Work.

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