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Carbon-Based Metal Free Catalysts

Preparation, Structural and Morphological Property and Application

  • 1st Edition - May 11, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Abdullah Mohammed Ah Asiri, Anish Khan, Showkat Ahmad Bhawani, Bahaa Mohamed Mahmoud Abu-Zied, Suchart Siengchin, Hurija Dzudzevic-Cancar
  • Language: English

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Carbon-Based Metal Free Catalysts: Preparation, Structural and Morphological Property and Application covers the different aspects of carbon-based metal free catalysts, including the fabrication of catalysts from natural sources and carbon allotropes, their manufacturing and design, characterization techniques, and applications. Special features in the book include illustrations and tables which summarize up-to-date information on research carried out on manufacturing, design, characterization and applications of metal free catalysts. This book assembles the information and knowledge on metal free catalysts and emphasizes the concept of green technology in the field of manufacturing and design.

It is an ideal reference source for lecturers, students, researchers and industrialists working in the field of new catalyst development, especially polymer composites and is a valuable reference book handbook for teaching, learning, and research.

Key features

  • Describes the design on metal-free catalysts
  • Includes manufacturing technique of carbon-based metal free catalysts
  • Lists applications of carbon-based metal free catalysts
  • Discusses the characterization of carbon-based metal free catalysts

Readership

University students at the grade of senior undergraduate, Master or PhD level, Professors and lecturers teaching in the area of carbon-based metal free catalysts. Researchers and/or Postdoctoral doing research on metal free catalysis technology. As reference book for industries working on design and manufacturing of metal-free techniques.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to catalysts

2. Green metal free catalysts

3. Carbon based metal free catalysts, structure properties and morphologies

4. Carbon nanomaterials as metal-free catalysts in next generation fuel cells

5. Electrocatalysys based on carbon-based metal free catalysts

6. Sulphur based advanced metal free catalysts

7. Carbon nanotubes as metal free catalysts for destruction of organic pollutant

8. Progress in carbon-based metal free catalysis

9. Role of activated carbon as metal free catalysts

10. Multiwale nanotubes as metal free catalysts for hydrogen production

11. p-doped graphene and application as metal free catalysts

12. Carbon supported metal free catalysts for the electrochemical CO2 reduction

13. Carbon composites as metal free catalysts

14. Nitrogen doped graphene foam as metal free catalysts

15. Metal free catalysts for the fuel cell application

16. Recent A preparation of cyclic carbonates by carbon-based metal free catalysts

17. Nano carbon-based metal free catalysts: types, preparation and applications

18. Types of carbon free catalysts

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 18, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

AA

Abdullah Mohammed Ah Asiri

Abdullah Mohammed Ahmed Asiri is Professor in Chemistry Department – Faculty of Science -King Abdulaziz University. Ph.D. (1995) From University of Walls College of Cardiff, U.K. on Tribochromic compounds and their applications. The chairman of the chemistry department , King Abdulaziz University currently and also The Director of the center of Excellence for advanced Materials Research. Director of Education Affair Unit–Deanship of Community services. Member of Advisory committee for advancing materials, (National Technology Plan, King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Color chemistry. Synthesis of novel photochromic and thermochromic systems,Synthesis of novel colorants and coloration of textiles and plastics, Molecular Modeling, Applications of organic materials into optics such as OEDS, High performance organic Dyes and pigments. New applications of organic photochromic compounds in new novelty. Organic synthesis of heterocyclic compounds as precursor for dyes. Synthesis of polymers functionalized with organic dyes. Preparation of some coating formulations for different applications. Photodynamic thereby using Organic Dyes and Pigments Virtual Labs and Experimental Simulations. He is member of Editorial board of Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, Journal of King Abdul Aziz University,Pigment and Resin Technology Journal, Organic Chemistry Insights, Libertas Academica, Recent Patents on Materials Science, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. Beside that he has professional membership of International and National Society and Professional bodies.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

AK

Anish Khan

Dr. Anish Khan is currently working as Assistant Professor in Chemistry Department, Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Completed Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 2010. Completed Postdoctoral from School of Chemical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia (USM) in Electroanalytical chemistry in 2010. Working in the field of synthetic biosensor, polymer composites, organic–inorganic electrically conducting nanocomposites. More than 200 research articles, 70 book chapters 30 books published in referred international publisher and more than 20 international conferences/ workshop. More than 30 research projects completed. Editorial board member of more than 11 international journals. Member of American Nano Society.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor in Chemistry Department, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

SB

Showkat Ahmad Bhawani

Dr. Showkat Ahmad Bhawani is presently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of chemistry, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, UNIMAS Malaysia. In addition to this, he has a teaching experience of two years from King Abdul Aziz University- North Jeddah and a post-doctoral experience of Three years from the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He has received his M Sc. in Analytical Chemistry and Ph D. in Applied Analytical Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He is working on the synthesis of molecular Imprinting polymers for the removal/extraction of dyes, fungicides, and various natural products from environmental and biological samples. In addition to this, he is also working on the development of new test methods and determining standard conditions for analysis (Separation, Isolation, and Determination) of various analytes from environmental and biological samples. He is involved in the analysis of samples like Surfactants, Amino acids, Drugs, Vitamins, Sugars, and Metal ions. He has published 1 book and 8 book chapters and he has published more than 30 papers in various journals. He is a life member of the Asian polymer association and editorial board member of several journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, UNIMAS, Malaysia

BA

Bahaa Mohamed Mahmoud Abu-Zied

Prof. Bahaa Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed Abu-Zied is currently working as Professor of Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut, Egypt. He has published more than 74 research articles and got several times various fellowships as well prizes. Worked in king Abdulaziz University, Jeddah Saudi Arabia from 2011 to 2019
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut, Egypt

SS

Suchart Siengchin

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Suchart Siengchin is a former President of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok and currently serves as the Director of TechnoPark at the same university. He earned his Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Giessen/Friedberg, Germany in 1999, followed by an M.Sc. in Polymer Technology from the University of Applied Sciences Aalen in 2002, and another M.Sc. in Material Science from Erlangen-Nürnberg University in 2004. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the Institute for Composite Materials at the University of Kaiserslautern in 2008, including postdoctoral research at Kaiserslautern University and Purdue University's School of Materials Engineering. In 2016, he received his habilitation from Chemnitz University in Saxony, Germany. In 2024, he was honored as an Honorary Fellow by RWTH Aachen University. He has also served as a Lecturer in Production and Material Engineering at the Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering, KMUTNB, and has been a full Professor and President of KMUTNB. He received the Outstanding Researcher Award in 2010, 2012, and 2013 at KMUTNB. His research focuses on Polymer Processing and Composite Materials. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Science and Engineering Progress, a Q1 indexed journal on Scopus, and has authored over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles, 15 editorial contributions, more than 100 book chapters, one authored book, and over 50 edited books. He has presented at more than 70 international and national conferences related to Materials Science and Engineering. Recognized as one of the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University for 2021- 2022, he received the National Excellence Researcher Award (Engineering and Research Industry) from Thailand's National Research Council in 2021, and has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2025 by Clarivate.

Affiliations and expertise
Former President of KMUTNB, and Director of KMUTNB Techno Park, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

HD

Hurija Dzudzevic-Cancar

Prof. Hurija Džudžević-Čančar, PhD, is a professor of Organic Chemistry and related subjects at the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research interests: Green Organic synthesis, Polymer-Chemistry, nannomaterial composites, Biosensors, Biologically active natural products, Computational chemistry.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Natural Science in Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne 8, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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