Nanostructured Photocatalyst via Defect Engineering: Basic Knowledge and Recent Advances

This book helps readers comprehend the principles and fundamentals of defect engineering toward realization of an efficient phoatalyst. The volume consists of two parts, each of which addresses a particulate type of defects. The first, larger section provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the behaviour and nature of intrinsic defects. The author describes how their controlled introduction and consequent manipulation over concentration, distribution, nature and diffusion is one of the most effective and practical methodologies to modify the properties and characteristics of target phoatalytic materials. The second part of the book explains the formation of extrinsic defects in the form of metallic and non-metallic dopants and gives a detailed description of their characteristics as this approach is also often used to fabricate an efficient phoatalyst. Filling the gap in knowledge on the correlation between introduction of defects in various semiconducting materials and their phoatalytic performance, the book is ideal for graduate students, academics and researchers interested in phoatalysts, defect engineering, clean energy, hydrogen production, nanoscale advanced functional materials, CO deactivation, and semiconductor engineering.