Metal Sulfide Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications

Organic contaminants, volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals pose long-term threats to natural ecosystems and human health. Particularly in the last decade, metal sulfide nanomaterials have piqued researchers’ interest due to their outstanding physicochemical characteristics that make them amenable to modulation, as well as their qualitative and quantitative structure-activity relationship, proving them uniquely equipped for the enhancement of cost-effective environmental remediation technologies. Written by a team of internal experts, Metal Sulfide Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications accompanies its broad range of users on a journey that starts with fundamentals’ understanding and leads to the presentation of the latest developments and possibilities of applied use, specifically for chemical detection/sensing and monitoring in air, soil, and water matrices as well as for chemical reaction engineering purposes (conversion, photocatalysis, adsorption) to facilitate removal of pollutants. Offers up-to-date, state-of-the-art information on metal sulfide nanomaterialsTakes advantage of a structured and comprehensive approach to seamlessly combine theory and practical applicationsFocuses on usability for environmental remediation, making its contents extremely valuable for those who want to apply this knowledge in industry tooConceptualizes future implications at the end of each chapter INDICE: Part 1. Fundamentals of Metal Sulfide Nanomaterials1. Introduction to metal sulfides and sulfur-doped nanomaterials2. Substitutional structural modifications and opto-electronic properties of metal sulfide nanomaterials3. Defects and band gap engineering of metal sulfide heterostructure nanomaterials4. Conversional synthetic routes and structural characterization of metal sulfide nanomaterials5. Advances in biogenic green synthesis of metal sulfide nanomaterialsPart 2. Detection and Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants6. Metal sulfides nanomaterials for gaseous chemical sensing7. Metal sulfide-based electrochemical sensors for the detection of organic water contaminants8. Composites of metal sulfide nanomaterials for electrochemical detection of heavy metal ionsPart 3. Removal of Environmental Pollutants9. Interface dynamics in metal sulfides and metal oxides for photodegradation of organic contaminants10. Hybrid carbon-metal sulfide nanomaterial photocatalysts for environmental remediation11. Metal sulfide nanomaterial-based photocatalysts for removal of gaseous pollutants12. Hybrid metal sulfide nanomaterials for removal of heavy metal water contaminants13. Metal sulfide nanomaterials for antimicrobial activity, disinfection, and self-cleaning14. Advances in sulfur-doped nanomaterials for environmental remediation

• ISBN: 978-0-443-13464-7
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 415
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2024
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés