Application of TiO2 Nanotube in Electrocatalysis/Photocatalysis
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 12656
Special Issue Editors
Interests: stress and associated strain effects developed at the interface in oxide multilayers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the context of continuous technological development and human population growth, the consumption of energy as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, which are depleting at an accelerating pace, represents a major problem for human well-being and ecosystem health. In that regard, comprehensive research has been dedicated to both electrocatalysis and photocatalysis, broad topics related to energy production and storage and water and air pollution treatment. Electrocatalysis plays a pivotal role in the fields of wastewater treatment and energy conversion devices like batteries, fuel, and solar cells, while photocatalysis deals with the removal of environmental pollutants (self-cleaning surfaces, NOx and volatile organic compounds oxidation, etc.) and green energy production (hydrogen generation, CO2 conversion to biofuels, etc).
Of paramount importance for the development and advancement of these fields is the use of suitable catalyst materials that fulfill a list of requirements, like biological and chemical inertness, suitable bandgap, low cost and nontoxicity, long term stability, high mobility of charge carriers, and the predictable correlation between physical and photo/electrochemical properties. TiO2 is by far the most explored material, research around its properties spans over more than four decades and, recently, its structuration in the form of nanotubes has gained substantial interest. Both experimental and theoretical research findings dealing with the synthesis and tailoring of properties of TiO2 nanotubes through various techniques (heat treatment, doping, tube decoration, etc.), and their application in electrocatalysis and photocatalysis are of prime importance for this Special Issue.
Dr. Cristian Nicolae Mihailescu
Dr. Mihai-Robert Zamfir
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- TiO2 nanotubes synthesis techniques
- Physical and chemical properties tailoring
- Bandgap engineering
- Suppression of photogenerated carriers recombination
- Electrochemical performances
- Li-ion batteries
- Pollutant degradations
- Water splitting
- Fuel conversion
