Defect Engineering in Photocatalysis

Chuanyi Wang is a distinguished professor at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology (SUST), China. He is a Full member of European Academy of Natural Sciences, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials, Life Fellow of RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce), and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. Prof. Wang is also an associate editor or editorial board member for number of international journals. His research covers energy and environmental photocatalysis, nanostructured materials, surface and interface chemistry, etc.Abdelkader Labidi, is a Post doctor-research associate at Shaanxi University of science and technology, China. His research studies are about new photocatalysts, electrocatalysts and adsorbents synthesis focusing on the design of photocatalytic materials based on the renewable resources as well as on the control of their morphology, structure and their efficiency to degrade the environmental contaminants.Qiuhui Zhu is Lecturer at Wuyi University, China. His research interest mainly focuses on the design and synthesis of defective bismuth-based photocatalysts for environmental remediation and energy conversion.

• Chapter 01 Tailoring photocatalytic materials through defect engineering: control, mechanism and experimental protocolsChapter 02 Defect engineering in photocatalysis: opportunities and challengesChapter 03 Tailoring TiO2 and other metal oxides (WO3 and ZnO) photocatalysts with defect engineeringChapter 04 Defect formation in heterojunction photocatalysts through oxygen vacancies for photocatalytic implementationsChapter 05 Defect-engineered metal-organic frameworks for photocatalytic implementationsChapter 06 Defect behavior of carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as efficient feedstock in photocatalytic reactionsChapter 07 Structures, properties and applications of defective graphene-based photocatalystsChapter 08 Defective Photocatalysts in Organic SynthesisChapter 09 Photo-therapy based on defective photocatalystsChapter 10 Defected engineered materials for photocatalytic sterilizationChapter 11 Nano- and micro-plastics degradation using defect-engineered photocatalytic feedstocksChapter 12 Defective photocatalytic materials for desalination: Synthesis strategies, types of defects and mechanismsChapter 13 Defective photocatalytic materials for organic pollutants degradationChapter 14 NOx removal using defective photocatalytic materialsChapter 15 Defective photocatalytic materials for biomass conversionChapter 16 Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 on Defect-rich Catalysts Chapter 17 H2 evolution utilizing defect-engineered photocatalytic materialsChapter 18 Enhanced H2O2 production over defective photocatalytic materialsChapter 19 Photocatalytic NH3 synthesis by defect-engineered photocatalytic materialsChapter 20 Summary