CITATION

Guo, Jinghua and Chen, Xiaobo. Solar Hydrogen Generation: Transition Metal Oxides in Water Photoelectrolysis. US: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011.

Solar Hydrogen Generation: Transition Metal Oxides in Water Photoelectrolysis

Published:  December 2011

eISBN: 9780071701273 0071701273 | ISBN: 9780071701266
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Hydrogen Generation: Electrochemistry and Photoelectrolysis
  • 1.1 Electrochemistry
  • 1.2 Photocatalysis
  • 2 Photocatalytic Reactions, Oxidation, and Reduction
  • 2.1 Basic Points in Photocatalytic Reactions
  • 2.2 Semiconductor Catalysts
  • 2.3 Biomimetic Catalysts
  • 2.4 Nanostructured Catalysts
  • 3 Transition Metal Oxides
  • 3.1 Metal Oxide Semiconductors
  • 3.2 Heterogeneous Photocatalyst Materials
  • 3.3 d[sup(0)] Metal Oxide Photocatalyts
  • 3.3.1 Ti-, Zr-Based Oxides
  • 3.3.2 Nb-, Ta-Based Oxides
  • 3.3.3 W-, Mo-Based Oxides
  • 3.3.4 Other d[sup(0)] Metal Oxides
  • 3.4 d[sup(10)] Metal Oxide Photocatalysts
  • 3.5 f[sup(0)] Metal Oxide Photocatalysts
  • 4 Crystal Structure and Electronic Structure
  • 4.1 Crystal Structure
  • 4.2 TiO[sub(2)]
  • 4.3 Fe Oxides
  • 4.4 Electronic Structure of 3d Transition Metal Oxides
  • 4.4.1 TiO[sub(2)]
  • 4.4.2 ZnO
  • 5 Optical Properties and Light Absorption
  • 5.1 TiO[sub(2)]
  • 6 Impurity, Dopants, and Defects
  • 6.1 Single-Element Doped TiO[sub(2)]
  • 6.1.1 Metal Doped TiO[sub(2)]
  • 6.1.2 Nonmetal Doped TiO[sub(2)]
  • 6.2 Metal/Nonmetal Ion Co-doping
  • 6.3 Doped ZnO
  • 6.4 Controlling Band Structure by Making Solid Solutions
  • 6.4.1 Oxide Solid Solutions
  • 6.4.2 Oxynitride Solid Solutions
  • 6.5 Organic and Inorganic Systems
  • 7 Surface and Morphology
  • 7.1 Surface and Interface Chemistry
  • 7.2 Nanostructure and Morphology
  • 7.2.1 Quantum-Sized Transition Metal Oxides
  • 7.2.2 TiO[sub(2)] Quantum Dots
  • 7.2.3 Bandgap Engineering for Visible Light Response
  • 7.2.4 Bandgap at the Surface
  • 7.2.5 Bandgap Change from Crystal Structure
  • 8 Soft X-ray Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure
  • 8.1 Soft X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy
  • 8.2 Resonantly Excited Soft X-ray Emission Spectroscopy
  • 8.3 Electronic Structure of Metal Oxide Catalysts
  • 8.3.1 TiO[sub(2)]
  • 8.3.2 Fe[sub(2)]O[sub(3)] Catalysts
  • 8.3.3 Co Nanocrystals and Co[sub(3)]O[sub(4)] Catalysts
  • 8.3.4 ZnO
  • 8.4 In Situ Electronic Structure Characterization
  • 8.5 NiCl[sup(2)] Water Solutions
  • 8.6 In Situ Study of Electrochemical Reaction
  • References
  • Index