Environmentally Benign Photocatalysts Applications of Titanium Oxide
This book focuses on the various approaches used in the design and development of highly efficient, visible light responsive titanium oxide-based photocatalysts by applying such methods as sol-gel, precipitation, dip-coating, metal ion-implantation, and m
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Masakazu Anpo
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Prashant V. Kamat
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Environmentally Benign Photocatalysts Applications of Titanium Oxide-based Materials
Editors Masakazu Anpo Department of Applied Chemistry Osaka Prefecture University Osaka, Japan [email protected]
Prashant V. Kamat Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame Indiana, USA [email protected]
Series Editor David J. Lockwood National Research Council of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Canada
ISSN 1571-5744 ISBN 978-0-387-48441-9 e-ISBN 978-0-387-48444-0 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-48444-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010937642 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Over the past few decades, mankind has observed an unprecedented and remarkable growth in industry, resulting in a more prosperous lifestyle for peoples of many countries. In developing countries, however, explosive industrial growth is just now beginning to raise the living standards of the people. Most industries, especially in these developing countries, are still powered by the burning of fossil fuels; consequently, a lack of clean energy resources has caused environmental pollution on an unprecedented large and global scale. Toxic wastes have been relentlessly released into the air and water leading to serious and devastating environmental and health problems while endangering the planet and life itself with the effects of global warming. To address these urgent environmental issues, new catalytic and photocatalytic processes as well as open-atmospheric systems are presently being developed that can operate at room temperature while being totally clean and efficient and thus environmentally harmonious. Essential to technologies harnessing the abundant solar energy that reaches the earth are the highly functional photocatalytic processes that can utilize not only UV light, but also visible light. Titanium oxide-based catalysts are especially promising as some of the
