Layered Materials in Photocatalysis

Environmental Purification and Energy Conversion

Ye, Liqun / Xia, Dehua (Editor)

1. Edition July 2025
352 Pages, Hardcover
9 Pictures (9 Colored Figures)
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Special materials with special properties: The book summarizes the science and technology of layered photocatalytic materials with a particular emphasis on environmental and energy applications.

ISBN: 978-3-527-35277-7

Wiley-VCH, Weinheim

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Increase photocatalytic efficiency with cutting-edge materials

Photocatalysis, which modifies the rate of reactions stimulated by light absorption, can be a critical component of many catalytic processes. Layered structures can be used in photocatalysis to broaden surface area and generate more numerous reaction sites, which can in turn increase both photocatalytic activity and quantum efficiency. In recent years these layered materials have generated numerous applications in energy production and environmental chemistry.

Layered Materials in Photocatalysis introduces these materials, their historical development, and their key properties. Analyzing all major classifications of layered photocatalysts, it details their key environmental and energy applications and offers predictions for future research and development. The result is a crucial volume summarizing a growing technology.

Layered Materials in Photocatalysis readers will also find:

* Combines both science and skills for professionals in the field
* Detailed discussion of layered bismuth-based photocatalysts, metal-free layered photocatalysts, and many more
* Authored by one of the leading experts in structured materials in photocatalysis

Layered Materials in Photocatalysis is ideal for catalytic chemists, photochemists, and any other scientists working with catalytic or energy-generating processes.

1 Basic Principles of Photocatalysis
2 The Role of Layer Structure in Photocatalysis
3 Applications of Layered Photocatalysts
4 Layered Bismuth-Based Photocatalysts 1: BiOX (X=Cl, Br, I)
5 Layered Bismuth-Based Photocatalysts 2: BiXO4(X=V, P)
6 Layered Bismuth-Based Photocatalysts 3: Bi2XO6 (X= Mo, W)
7 Metal-Free Layered Photocatalysts 1: g-C3N4
8 Metal-Free Layered Photocatalysts 2: Covalent Organic Framework
9 Layered Double Hydroxides Photocatalysts
10 Layer-Structured Co-Catalyst for Photocatalysis 1: Graphene
11 Layer-Structured Co-Catalyst for Photocatalysis 2: Transition Metal Sulfide
12 Layer-Structured Co-Catalyst for Photocatalysis 3: MXene
13 Face-to-Face 2D/2D Heterojunction between Layered Photocatalysts

Liqun Ye works at China Three Gorges University in Yichang City, as a full professor of chemistry. He got a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Wuhan University in 2013. From 2015 to 2016, Prof. Ye worked in prof Wong's group as a Research Assistant in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His expertise is focused on photophysics and photochemistry of nanostructured materials. His current research interest is to develop efficient photocatalytic approaches to solar energy conversion and utilization by harnessing solar energy to produce molecular fuels and to degrade environmental pollutants. In the near decade, Prof. Ye, acting as the project principal, has completed and is conducting more than 10 important research items, like NSFCs. As the first and/or corresponding author, he has published over 100 professional papers in the international SCI journals. These papers have been positively cited for more than 10000 times. He also is "highly cited scientists" of Clarivate Analytics.

Dehua Xia, professor and doctoral supervisor, received his bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees from Sun Yat-sen University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong successively. After his doctorate in 2014, he went to the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for postdoctoral research. In July 2017, he joined the School of Environment of Sun Yat-sen University. He is mainly engaged in research on environmental microinterface chemical processes and pollution control.He has published more than 100 SCI papers,includign Nature Communication, ACS Nano, Adv.Func. Mater., ES&T, Water Res., App.catal. B:Environ.He is the Winner of the Outstanding Youth Fund of Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, "Yat-sen Scholar" of Sun Yat-sen University, "100 People Program" of Sun Yat-sen University, also selected in the world's top 2% top scientists list, second prize of China Environmental Protection Industry Association Environmental Technology Progress Award and other honors.