Photocatalysts: Synthesis and Characterization Methods

Mohammad Mansoob Khan is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. He earned his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2002. He has worked in India, Ethiopia, Oman, and South Korea and has established excellence in teaching and novel research. He is teaching various courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has edited three books and authored two books. He has published about 250 research and review articles. He has addressed several conferences as a Plenary speaker (01 talk), Keynote speaker (10 talks) and delivered Invited talks (15 talks). Additionally, he is associated with several journals as editor, associate editor, reviewer, etc. His expertise is in the cutting-edge area of nanochemistry, nanotechnology, materials sciences, and materials chemistry, especially in the field of inorganic and nanohybrid materials such as the synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles, their nanocomposites, metal oxides (such as TiO2, ZnO, SnO2, CeO2, etc.), and chalcogenides (such as CdS, ZnS, MoS2, etc.), perovskites, MXenes, and their nanocomposites. He is also extensively working on the band gap engineering of semiconductors (such as metal oxides and chalcogenides). The synthesized nanostructured materials are used for heterogeneous photocatalysis, hydrogen production, photoelectrodes, solar cells, sensors, and biological applications such as antibacterial, antifungal, antibiofilm activities, etc.

• Section I. Synthesis methods1. Introduction of synthesis methods2. Precipitation and co-precipitation synthesis methods3. Sol-gel synthesis method4. Hydrothermal synthesis method5. Solvothermal synthesis method6. Microwave synthesis method7. Sonochemical synthesis method8. Chemical vapour deposition synthesis method9. Physical vapour deposition synthesis method10. Green synthesis methods11. Electrochemical deposition synthesis methodsSection II. Characterization methods12. Introduction of characterization methodsPart A. Spectroscopic Characterization Techniques13. Absorption spectroscopy14. UV-Visible spectroscopy and Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy15. Vibrational spectroscopy16. Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy17. Raman spectroscopy18. Emission spectroscopy: Photoluminescence spectroscopyPart B. Physicochemical Characterization Techniques19. X-ray diffraction20. X-ray fluorescence21. Surface area and porosity measurements22. Dynamic light scattering23. Atomic force microscopy24. Scanning electron microscopy25. Transmission electron microscopy26. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopyPart C. Electrochemical Characterization Techniques27. Thermodynamic properties of the photocatalysts using electrochemical techniques28. Kinetic properties of the photocatalysts using electrochemical techniques29. Photocatalytic efficiency of the photocatalysts using electrochemical techniques