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Solar hydrogen generation : transition metal oxides in water photoelectrolysis
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New York, NY. : McGraw-Hill, c2012.
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xvii, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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9780071701266
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"Expert techniques for extracting hydrogen from water using transition metal oxides as catalysts Solar Hydrogen Generation details the complex process of separating hydrogen from oxygen--photoelectrolysis. This book comprehensively covers the chemical characteristics of transition metal oxides, explaining how to covert solar energy to electron energy through transition metal oxides. Past experimentations and future directions are discussed. Solar Hydrogen Generation Comprehensively reviews physical characteristics of transition metal oxides both in electrochemical and photocatalytic applications Includes history and future prospects for water photoelectrolysis Reviews state-of-the-art achievements in the fields of condensed matter physics, nanostructured material science, electrochemistry, and photocatalysis Addresses potential problems and solutions In-depth coverage: Hydrogen Production; Electrochemistry and Photoelectrolysis; Transition Metal Oxides; Molecular Structure, Crystal Structure, and Electronic Structure; Optical Properties and Light Absorption; Bandgap, Band Edge, and Engineering; Impurity, Dopants, and Defects; Photocatalytic Reactions, Oxidation and Reduction; Organic and Inorganic Systems; Surface and Interface Chemistry; Nanostructured and Morphology; Synchrotron Radiation and Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy"--Provided by publisher.

"This pioneering guide covers one of the most promising sustainable energy carriers--water hydrogen--and shows how to extract hydrogen from water using transition metal oxides as catalyst"--Provided by publisher.
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State-of-the-art renewable energy science research and applications

Solar Hydrogen Generation: Transition Metal Oxides in Water Photoelectrolysis provides expert techniques for extracting hydrogen from water using transition metal oxides as catalysts. The basic processes of electrochemistry and photocatalysis for hydrogen production are described along with photocatalytic reactions and semiconductor photocatalysts, particularly metal oxides.

This in-depth guide illustrates the corresponding crystal structure vs. electronic structure and optical properties vs. light absorption of transition metal oxides. Impurity and doped photocatalysts, integrated organic and inorganic systems, surface and interface chemistry, and nanostructure and morphology in photocatalysis applications are all addressed. This comprehensive resource introduces soft x-ray absorption (XAS), soft x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), and resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering (RIXS), followed by a description of instrumentation.

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* Hydrogen generation: electrochemistry and photoelectrolysis * Photocatalytic reactions, oxidation, and reduction * Transition metal oxides * Crystal structure and electronic structure * Optical properties and light absorption * Impurity, dopants, and defects * Surface and morphology * Soft x-ray spectroscopy and electronic structure


Author Notes

Jinghua Guo, Ph.D., is a staff scientist of Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was previously a faculty member at Uppsala University, Sweden. Dr. Guo is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications, an editor of the International Journal of Nanotechnology , guest editor for the Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena , and a reviewer for scientific journals, including Physical Review Letters, Nature Chemistry, Nano Letters , and Journal of the American Chemical Society .

Xiaobo Chen, Ph.D. , is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He was previously a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California - Berkeley. Dr. Chen has published 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles with more than 6,000 citations, holds three U.S. and international patents, is the chair for Materials Research Society Spring Meeting: Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterials in 2011 and 2012, and is a reviewer for many scientific journals, including Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society , and Advanced Materials .


Table of Contents

Prefacep. xiii
1 Hydrogen Generation: Electrochemistry and Photoelectrolysisp. 1
1.1 Electrochemistryp. 5
1.2 Photocatalysisp. 10
2 Photocatalytic Reactions, Oxidation, and Reductionp. 13
2.1 Basic Points in Photocatalytic Reactionsp. 16
2.2 Semiconductor Catalystsp. 18
2.3 Biomimetic Catalystsp. 20
2.4 Nanostructured Catalystsp. 21
3 Transition Metal Oxidesp. 23
3.1 Metal Oxide Semiconductorsp. 28
3.2 Heterogeneous Photocatalyst Materialsp. 30
3.3 d° Metal Oxide Photocatalytsp. 30
3.3.1 Ti-, Zr-Based Oxidesp. 35
3.3.2 Nb-, Ta-Based Oxidesp. 36
3.3.3 W-, Mo-Based Oxidesp. 45
3.3.4 Other d° Metal Oxidesp. 46
3.4 d10 Metal Oxide Photocatalystsp. 46
3.5 f° Metal Oxide Photocatalystsp. 47
4 Crystal Structure and Electronic Structurep. 49
4.1 Crystal Structurep. 51
4.2 TiO2p. 56
4.3 Fe Oxidesp. 61
4.4 Electronic Structure of 3d Transition Metal Oxidesp. 62
4.4.1 Ti02p. 62
4.4.2 ZnOp. 64
5 Optical Properties and Light Absorptionp. 67
5.1 Ti02p. 69
6 Impurity, Dopants, and Defectsp. 73
6.1 Single-Element Doped TiO2p. 76
6.1.1 Metal Doped Ti02p. 76
6.1.2 Nonmetal Doped TiO2p. 85
6.2 Metal/Nonmetal Ion Co-dopingp. 92
6.3 Doped ZnOp. 94
6.4 Controlling Band Structure by Making Solid Solutionsp. 94
6.4.1 Oxide Solid Solutionsp. 94
6.4.2 Oxynitride Solid Solutionsp. 97
6.5 Organic and Inorganic Systemsp. 99
7 Surface and Morphologyp. 101
7.1 Surface and Interface Chemistryp. 103
7.2 Nanostructure and Morphologyp. 105
7.2.1 Quantum-Sized Transition Metal Oxidesp. 106
7.2.2 TiO2 Quantum Dotsp. 107
7.2.3 Bandgap Engineering for Visible Light Responsep. 110
7.2.4 Bandgap at the Surfacep. 112
7.2.5 Bandgap Change from Crystal Structurep. 112
8 Soft X-ray Spectroscopy and Electronic Structurep. 113
8.1 Soft X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopyp. 116
8.2 Resonantly Excited Soft X-ray Emission Spectroscopyp. 118
8.3 Electronic Structure of Metal Oxide Catalystsp. 119
8.3.1 TiO2p. 119
8.3.2 Fe2O3 Catalystsp. 122
8.3.3 Co Nanocrystals and Co3O4 Catalystsp. 122
8.3.4 ZnOp. 128
8.4 In Situ Electronic Structure Characterizationp. 129
8.5 NiCL, Water Solutionsp. 131
8.6 In Situ Study of Electrochemical Reactionp. 132
Referencesp. 135
Indexp. 175