Chemical Physics of Nanostructured Semiconductors

Detlef W Bahnemann studied chemistry at the TU Berlin, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. From 1981 to 1988 he worked as a Senior Scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) Berlin with Prof. Arnim Henglein. He joined the group of Prof. M. R. Hoffmann at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA as a Visiting Associate (1985-1987). In 1988-2002 he was a Department Head at the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hannover, FRG. Since June 2002 he became an Academic Director at the Institute for Technical Chemistry of the Hannover University where he is responsible for the research field of Photochemistry and Nanotechnology. Prof. Dr. Bahnemann is Honorary Visiting Prof, at the Robert-Gordon Univ. in Aberdeen (UK), Lecturer for Physical Chemistry at the Carl-von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, FRG. Alexander L Kokorin was born in 1947. Was graduated as a biophysicist in 1970; Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in 1974; D.Sc. degree (Doctor of Sciences) in physical chemistry - in 1992. At present: Principal Researcher and Deputy Head of the Division of Kinetics and Catalysis, N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Area of research interests: chemical methods of solar energy conversion; chemical physics of organized molecular systems, including nanosized oxide semiconductors doped with transition metal ions, and polymer-metal complexes; the study of their structure, absorptive, catalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical properties. EPR spectroscopy and spin-spin interaction between paramagnetics. He is the author and co-author of more than 170 publications, including two books and several reviews and book chapters.

• Preface Chapter 1. Charge Separation in Titanium Oxide Nanocrystalline Semiconductors Revialed by Magnetic Resonance Chapter 2. Kinetic Peculiarities of Photocatalytic Reactions on CdS Nanocolloids Chapter 3. Photooxidation of Water at Hematite Electrodes Chapter 4. Photoelectrochemistry of Nanocrystalline Aggregates of Cyanine Dyes on the Semiconductor Electrodes Chapter 5. Physico-Chemical Properties of Novel Nanocrystalline Ruthenium Based Chalcogenide Materials Chapter 6. Metal Nanoparticles on Semiconductor Surfaces: Electrochemistry and Photocatalysis Chapter 7. Photocatalysis: Electron Transfer Serving the Environment Chapter 8. Electron Spin Resonance of Nanostructured Oxide Semiconductors