Nanostructured Carbon Nitrides for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Applications

Nanostructured Carbon Nitrides for Sustainable Energy and Environment Applications offers a comprehensive, authoritative and critical accounting of recent progress in the development and application of multifunctional carbon nitride materials and their hybrid heterostructures. Sections provide a systematic overview of key design principles towards the fabrication of high-performance carbon nitride-based nanostructures, along with insights into clean energy technologies (lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, microbial fuel cells, solar cells, photoelectrochemical water splitting devices) and environmental remediation methods (wastewater treatment, water disinfection, air pollution control and climate change mitigation) that build on these nanoengineered carbon nitrides. This is an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who are looking to further their understanding of how carbon-based nanomaterials are being used for sustainable energy applications. Helps users gain deeper insights into various aspects of carbon nitride materials from multidisciplinary perspectives Covers how to apply nanostructured carbon nitrides to tackle global energy and environmental challenges in a sustainable manner Explains the design and fabrication of carbon nitride-based materials with optimized structures, controlled morphologies, and tailored properties for practical implementation INDICE: 1. Introduction 2. Nanostructured Carbon Nitrides: Molecular Design and Engineering Perspectives Section I: Sustainable Energy Applications 3. Carbon Nitrides as High-Performance Electrode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries 4. Functional Carbon Nitride Materials for Flexible Supercapacitors 5. Carbon Nitrides as Catalyst Support in Fuel Cells 6. Enhancing Microbial Fuel Cell Performance by Carbon Nitride-Based Nanocomposites 7. Carbon Nitride Nanostructures for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution 8. Solar Energy Harvesting with Carbon Nitrides Section II: Sustainable Environmental Applications 9. Superior Adsorption of Existing and Emerging Environmental Contaminants onto Carbon Nitride Materials 10. Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts for Water Treatment and Purification 11. Carbon Nitride-Based Nanoheterostructures for Selective CO2 Capture 12. Artificial Photosynthesis by Carbon Nitride-Based Composite Photocatalysts 13. Environmental Sensing and Monitoring with Carbon Nitride Nanoarchitectures 14. Conclusion and Outlook

• ISBN: 978-0-12-823961-2
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 306
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés