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RSC Green Photo-Active Nanomaterials Sustainable Energy And Environmental Remediation by Nurxat Nuraje
Providing up-to-date coverage of green nanomaterials and systems, this book provides comprehensive information on nanostructured materials, including their applications in energy and environmental sciences. The book focusses on photo-active nanostructured materials, from the basic understanding of solar energy activation to their sustainable preparation and applications in environmental remediation and fuel production from biomass and carbon dioxide. It also examines the health and environmental impacts of photo-catalyst nanomaterials. This book is an important reference for researchers and industrial chemists working in the fields of energy and environmental remediation. Introduction to Green Nanostructured Photocatalysts; Fundamentals of Sunlight-Materials Interactions; Green Nanomaterials Preparation: Sustainable Methods and Approaches; Natural Photosynthesis System; Bioinspired Photocatalytic Nanomaterials; Hybrid Molecular-Nanomaterial Assemblies for Water Splitting Catalysis; Hierarchical Nanoheterostructures for Water Splitting; Nanophotocatalysis in Selective Transformations of Lignocellulose-derived Molecules: A Green Approach for the Synthesis of Fuels, Fine Chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals; Photocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Fuels by Novel Green Photocatalytic Materials; Hybrid Inorganic and Organic Assembly System for Photocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide; Biological Systems for Carbon Dioxide Reductions and Biofuel Production; Organic Reactions using Green Photo-active Nanomaterials; Hierarchical Nanoheterostructures: Layered Double Hydroxide-based Photocatalysts; Health and Environmental Aspects of Green-photoactive Nanomaterials; Risk Assessments of Green Photo-active Nanomaterials; Energy Harvesting from Solar Energy Using Nanoscale Pyroelectric Effects