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  title info:
    title: Investigation into High Efficiency Visible Light Photocatalysts for Water Reduction and Oxidation
  name:
    name part: Martin, David James.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVIII, 149 p. 76 illus., 62 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by David James Martin.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy resources
  subject:
    topic: Electrochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Chemical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Catalysis
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Alternate energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Green energy industries
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Electrochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Catalysis
  subject:
    topic: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Renewable and Green Energy
  classification: QD551-578
  classification: 541.37
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
  identifier: 9783319184883
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18488-3
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    record creation date: 150514
    record change date: 20151106191703.0
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