Elsevier Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting reviews the fundamentals and strategies needed to design and fabricate metal oxide-based electrocatalysts. After an introduction to the key properties of transition metal oxides, materials engineering methods to optimize the performance of metal-oxide based electrocatalysts are discussed. Strategies reviewed include defect engineering, interface engineering and doping engineering. Other sections cover important categories of metal-oxide (and related solids) based catalysts, including layered hydroxides, metal chalcogenides, metal phosphides, metal nitrides, metal borides, and more. Each chapter introduces important properties and material design strategies, including composite and morphology design. There is also an emphasis on cost-effective materials design and fabrication for optimized performance for electrocatalytic water splitting applications. Lastly, the book touches on recently developed in-situ characterization methods applied to observe and control the material synthesis process. Review Key introduction to the fundamentals, material synthesis, design and fabrication strategies of metal-oxide based electrocatalysts for water splitting applications From the Back Cover <p><i>Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting</i> reviews the fundamentals along with the strategies to design and fabricate metal oxide-based electrocatalysts. After an introduction to the key properties of transition metal oxides, materials engineering methods to optimize the performance of metal-oxide based electrocatalysts are discussed. Strategies reviewed include defect engineering, interface engineering and doping engineering.</p> <p>Then, the book touches on other important categories of metal-oxide (and related solids) based catalysts including layered hyrdroxides, metal chalcogenides, metal phosphides, metal nitrides, metal borides, and more. Each of the chapters introduces the important properties and material design strategies including composite design and morphology design. There is an emphasis on cost-effective materials design and fabrication for optimized performance for electrocatalytic water splitting applications.</p> <p>Lastly the book touches on the recently developed in-situ characterization methods applied to observe and control the material synthesis process.</p> <p><i>Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting</i> is suitable for materials scientists and engineers and chemical engineers working in the field of energy conversion and nanomaterials applications.</p> About the Author Junlei Qi is a full Professor at State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees under the supervision of Prof. Weitao Zheng from Jilin University in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was a visiting scholar in Prof. Toriumi Akira's group (2012–2013) at the University of Tokyo, where he investigated single-crystal graphene micro–nano device manufacturing. Dr. Qi’s current interests focus on vertical-standing arrays for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Ghenadii Korotcenkov received his Ph.D. in Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Materials and Devices in 1976, and his Doctor Habilitate Degree in Physics and Mathematics of Semiconductors and Dielectrics in 1990. Long time he was a leader of scientific Gas Sensor Group and manager of various national and international scientific and engineering projects carried out in Laboratory of Micro- and Optoelectronics, Technical University of Moldova, supported from International Foundations and Programs such as CRDF, MRDA, IREX, ICTP, INTAS, INCO-COPERNICUS, COST, NATO. From 2007 to 2008, he was an invited scientist in Korean Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea. Then, until the end of 2017 Dr. G. Korotcenkov was a resea