1st Edition

Material Design for Electrocatalysis

384 Pages 48 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

Although electrochemistry is a well-established field, with roots dating back to the 1790s, it has become an integral part of both fundamental and applied research in chemistry, physics, materials science, and industrial innovation. Modern applications of electrochemistry include electrocatalysis for sustainable development, such as water splitting for hydrogen production, CO2 reduction to... Read more

1. Classification of Electrocatalytic Materials

2. Synthetic Techniques for Electrocatalytic Material

3. An Overview of Spectroscopic Techniques for Material Characterization

4. Characterization of Materials Using Microscopic Techniques

5. Fabrication of Electrodes Using Different Materials and Cell Setup

6. Materials for Anodic Oxidation Reactions: Water Oxidation, Ammonia Oxidation, Organic Oxidation

7. Materials for Cathodic Reduction Reactions: Proton/Water Reduction, CO2/N2/NOx Reduction

8. Detection of Electroactive Species Through in situ and ex situ Studies

9. Future Perspectives of Electrocatalysis

Biography

Biswarup Chakraborty has been an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, since 2020, where he teaches inorganic chemistry and conducts research on photo(electro) catalysis. He obtained his PhD in chemistry in 2014 from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. In 2015, he moved to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and spent three and a half years as a postdoctoral associate. He subsequently joined the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow, where he worked for just over a year.

Sagarika Bhattacharya is an assistant professor of chemistry at the National Institute of Technology Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. She obtained her PhD in chemistry from the University of Calcutta in 2015. She subsequently carried out three and a half years of postdoctoral research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her research group focuses on the photophysical, catalytic, and biological applications of carbon quantum dots, as well as various multinuclear lanthanide molecular clusters.