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Nanostructured Photocatalyst via Defect Engineering

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As environmental pollution, shortage of energy sources, and their limited accessibility to only certain part of worldwide population were identified to be a crucial problem for further successive development of modern society, photocatalyst-based technologies become considered as highly attractive approach to effectively solve these problems. This chapter is dedicated to a brief introduction on the basic and most fundamental aspects of photocatalysis including its characteristics and particularities. Furthermore, several examples of perspective and highly applied light-induced reactions such as dye degradation, water splitting, CO2 reduction, nitrogen fixation, etc. are discussed in precise details with specific emphasis on the requirements toward their successful realization and further advancements. In addition, it is described how certain properties of semiconductor materials can be correlated with smooth occurrence and efficient outcome of these processes. In the end, several words are dedicated to reaching clear understanding why photocatalysis is regarded as an alternative to utilizing depleted fossil fuel.

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Gurylev, V. (2021). Photocatalysis: Fundamentals. In: Nanostructured Photocatalyst via Defect Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81911-8_1

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