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Metal-Chalcogenide Nanocomposites

Fundamentals, Properties and Industrial Applications

  • 1st Edition - November 19, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Mohammad Ehtisham Khan, Jeenat Aslam
  • Language: English

Metal-Chalcogenide Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Properties, and Industrial Applications focuses on metal chalcogenide nanomaterials for environmental remediation and corrosion… Read more

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Description

Metal-Chalcogenide Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Properties, and Industrial Applications focuses on metal chalcogenide nanomaterials for environmental remediation and corrosion applications. The book's chapters focus on cost-effective and facile fabrication approaches, their growth mechanisms, optical, electrical, and other important properties, and their applications in a broad range of diverse fields such as photocatalysis, photovoltaics, hydrogen production, lithium batteries, energy storage, anticorrosion, and sensor devices. The book will be an important information source for both material scientists and engineers who want to create the next generation of products and devices for energy and environmental applications.

Key features

  • Covers fabrication, standard characterization, photocatalytic mechanisms, and environmentally-sustainable fabrication methods
  • Applications covered include environmental, electronics, oil, gas, water treatment, sensing, and many more
  • Includes challenges and future opportunities, which are discussed in detail

Readership

Materials scientists, academic and industrial researchers, chemists, and chemical engineers and all those working in the research and development of metal chalcogenide nanocomposites for a broad range of different application fields. Postgraduate students

Table of contents

1 Chalcogenides and their nanocomposites: fundamental, properties and applications

2 Chalcogenides and their nanocomposites in environmental remediation

3 Chalcogenides and their nanocomposites in photocatalytic reactions

4 Metal chalcogenides and their nanocomposites in water purification systems

5 Metal chalcogenides and their nanocomposites in industrial effluents treatments

6 Heterostructured transition metal chalcogenides photocatalysts for organic contaminants degradation

7 Chalcogenides and their nanocomposites in heavy metal decontamination

8 Chalcogenides and their nanocomposites in oxygen reduction

9 Chalcogenides and their nanocomposites as supper capacitive materials

10 Metal-chalcogenides nanocomposites as counterelectrodes for olar cells

11 II-VI semiconductor metal chalcogenide nanomaterials and polymer composites: fundamentals, properties, and applications

12 Challenges and opportunities of chalcogenides and their nanocomposites

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 20, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

MK

Mohammad Ehtisham Khan

Mohammad Ehtisham Khan received doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from Yeungnam University, the Republic of Korea in 2017 and presently working as an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department in Chemical Engineering Technology at Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Khan is working in the cutting-edge area of nanosciences and nanotechnology, especially inorganic materials, such as, the fabrication of metal-metal oxides and carbon-based nanoparticles/nanocomposites various novel applications in the field of energy, environment, and biological applications such as catalysis, photocatalysis, photoelectrodes, optoelectronic devices, hydrogen production, sensing, and selected biological applications. Dr. Khan has 37 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and Editing 3 books in Elsevier with contributed in 14 book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor and Head, Department in Chemical Engineering Technology, Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

JA

Jeenat Aslam

Dr. Jeenat Aslam is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the College of Science, Taibah University, Yanbu, Al-Madina, Saudi Arabia. She obtained her PhD degree in chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Her research is mainly focused on materials and corrosion, nanotechnology, and surface chemistry. Dr. Jeenat has published several research and review articles in peer-reviewed international journals. In addition, she has authored more than 40 book chapters and edited more than 30 books for different prestigious publishers.

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taibah University, Yanbu, Al-Madina, Saudi Arabia

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