Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications

Product Description Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Fundamentals, Materials and Applications covers the design, synthesis and performance efficacies of the entire spectrum of oxygen reduction catalysts, extrapolating down to their applications in practical, alternative, renewable energy devices. Catalysts covered include heme inspired iron-based, heme inspired non-iron-based, non-heme-based, noble metal-based, non-noble metal-based and metal-free homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. The book contains critical analyses and opinions from experts around the world, making it of interest to scientists, engineers, industrialists, entrepreneurs and students. Review Covers all aspects of the oxygen reduction reaction, from fundamentals to applications From the Back Cover <p>Oxygen is a universal oxidant; and therefore, its reduction is involved in a myriad of chemical/biological reactions, both naturally occurring and synthetically induced. The involvement of oxygen in various reaction processes implies the simplicity and straightforwardness of the phenomena; however, under real conditions, the situation turns out to be complex and the oxygen reduction reaction becomes one of the rate determining steps, for example in the overall functioning of alternative and renewable energy devices like fuel cells. In order to accelerate this reaction various categories of catalysts (both purely synthetic chemical and bio-inspired) have been employed. These catalysts include heme inspired iron-based, heme inspired non-iron-based, non-heme-based, noble metal-based, non-noble metal-based and metal-free homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. <i>Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Fundamentals, Materials and Applications</i> covers in detail the designing, synthesis and performance efficacies of the entire spectrum of oxygen reduction catalysts, extrapolating to their applications in practical alternative renewable energy devices. This book, containing critical analyses and opinions from experts around the world and is of interest to scientists, engineers, industrialists, entrepreneurs and students.</p> About the Author Dr. Kushal Sengupta is currently an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) fellow at Max Planck institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Before winning the AvH fellowship award, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Abhedananda College under Burdwan University in India (Aug 2020 – Mar 2021). Prior to this, he was a NIH postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, USA (Aug 2016 – Dec 2019). He carried out his doctoral studies at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, with a CSIR-UGC NET fellowship (2010-2016). He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Chemistry from Jadavpur University. His areas of research interests lie in the field of bioinorganic chemistry especially in oxygen and proton reduction, electrocatalysis, Alzheimer’s disease, etc, and in field of biophysical chemistry especially in metal homeostasis in bacteria, protein purification, super-resolution fluorescence imaging, etc. He is the recipient of two prestigious international awards, SBIC travel grant (2015) and SNIC student bursary (2014) during his Ph.D. He has authored 26 research articles (till date) in reputed international journals and 2 books chapters and has presented several posters and talks in international and national conferences. He has been actively involved as a reviewer for several scientific publishing houses and has been a member of Society of Bioinorganic Chemistry for several years now. Dr. Sudipta Chatterjee is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher in KAUST Catalysis Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral associate for two years (2017-2019) in the department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology