Main description:

Efficient use of energy, eco-friendly environmental systems, and technologies play an important role in global sustainable development. Multifunctional nanocomposites have excellent properties and can meet the practical needs of energy development and environmental treatment. They have been gradually applied in chemical materials, energy preparation, pollution control and other fields and have achieved impressive development. Good understanding of the potential and challenges of utilizing nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications is key for both academic and industrial uses.This book will summarize existing research knowledge and help advanced students, researchers, and industrial technicians to understand the current development status and specific applications of nanomaterials to energy and the environment, providing an important reference for students to choose and understand research direction in this field. The book is divided into three main parts, with a strong foundational focus on the physicochemical basis of nanomaterials for these applications: the basic theory and physicochemical basis of nanomaterials introduction to their energy and environment applications examination of the typical cases and progress of nanomaterials.

Nanostructured Materials: Physicochemical Chemistry Fundamentals for Energy and Environmental Applications will appeal to researchers from a wide range of communities including the chemical sciences (inorganic and physical chemistry, coordination chemistry, molecular dynamics, electrochemistry, photocatalysis, thermocatalysis, thermodynamics, etc.), nanoscience (graphene, carbon nanotubes, nanocrystals, nano catalysis, energy, and environment-nano science), as well as materials science (material physics and chemistry, material chemistry, nano materials).

Contents:

Part One: Design fundamentals of nanomaterials 1. Introduction 2. Structure types and characteristics of nanomaterials 3. Structure-performance relationship of nanomaterials 4. Physicochemical basics and paradigms of nanomaterials 5. Synthesis methods and paradigms of nanomaterials 6. Characterization techniques and paradigms of nanomaterials

Part Two: Application types of nanomaterials in energy and environment fields 7. Supercapacitor: basic principles, electrode materials and applications 8. Metal-ion battery: basic principles, electrode materials and applications 9. Metal-air battery: basic principles, electrode materials and applications 10. Metal-sulfur battery: basic principles, electrode materials and applications 11. Fuel cells: basic principle, electrode material and applications 12. Solar cells: basic principles, electrode materials and applications 13. Electrocatalysis for energy conversion and environmental protection: fundamentals 14. Photocatalysis energy conversion and environmental protection: fundamentals 15. Sustainable production of energy gases: the function of nanomaterials 16. Selective separation and storage of energy gases: the function of nanomaterials 17. Adsorption in the treatment of three wastes: fundamentals 18. Advanced oxidation in the treatment of three wastes: fundamentals

Part Three: Application cases of nanomaterials in energy and environment fields 19. 3-D graphene nanosheets: recent progress in energy and environmental fields 20. Hollow carbon nanocages: recent progress in energy and environment fields 21. Nano porous activated carbon: recent progress in energy and environment fields 22. Nano manganese oxides: recent progress in energy and environment fields 23. Nano stannic oxides: recent progress in energy and environment fields 24. Nano nickel sulfides: recent progress in energy and environment fields 25. Nano tungsten carbides: recent progress in energy and environment fields 26. Nano polyaniline: recent progress in energy and environment fields 27. Nano graphitic carbon nitride: recent progress in energy and environmental fields 28. Nano bismuth oxometallates: recent progress in energy and environmental fields 29. Nano MAXene: recent progress in energy and environmental fields 30. Nano layered double hydroxide: recent progress in energy and environmental fields 31. Nano Perovskite: recent progress in energy and environmental fields 32. Atomically-dispersed catalysts: recent progress in energy and environmental fields

Part Four: Opportunities, challenges, and future outlooks 33. Opportunities 34. Challenges 35. Future Outlooks