Nanomaterials for Electrocatalysis

Thandavarayan Maiyalagan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India. His area of research is in the development and characterization of functional nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage applications, particularly fuel cells and Li−air batteries. Mahima Khandelwal is a Research Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. Her research area is mainly focused on the carbon nanomaterials and their modification via heteroatom doping, functionalization and by making composites for energy storage and conversion applications Ashok Kumar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Bionformatics, at Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, India. His research areas are microbial biotechnology, biocatalysis, biopolymers, enzyme immobilization, bioenergy, and CO2 conversion Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience. Ghulam Yasin is a researcher in the School of Environment and Civil Engineering at Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China. His expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices and technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for for real-world impact in energy-related and other functional applications.

• PART 1: Introduction1. Nanoelectrocatalysis: An introduction2. 2D hybrid electrocatalysts3. MXene-based nanomaterials for electrocatalysisPART 2: Nanomaterials for Electrocatalytic reactions such as ORR, OER and HER4. Transition metal nanoparticles as electrocatalysts for ORR, OER, and HER5. Transition metal chalcogenides-based electrocatalysts for ORR, OER, and HER6. Metal-organic framework-based electrocatalysts for ORR, OER, and HER7. Heteroatom-doped graphene-based electrocatalysts for ORR, OER, and HER8. Metal-containing heteroatom doped carbon nanomaterials for ORR, OER, and HER9. Metal-organic frameworks for the electrocatalytic ORR and HER10. LDH-based nanostructured electrocatalysts for hydrogen production11. MOFs-derived hollow structure as a versatile platform for highly-efficient multifunctional electrocatalyst toward overall water-splitting and Zn-air batteryPART 3: Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction reaction (NRR)12. Noble-metals-free catalysts for electrochemical NRR13. Noble metals-based nanocatalysts for electrochemical NNR14. Electrochemical NRR with noble metals-based nanocatalysts15. Electrochemical NRR with noble metals-free catalystsPART 4: Nanomaterials for Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction16. Nanomaterials for electrochemical reduction of CO2: An introduction