About the Book

Presents state-of-the-art knowledge of heterogeneous catalysts including new applications in energy and environmental fields

This book focuses on emerging techniques in heterogeneous catalysis, from new methodology for catalysts design and synthesis, surface studies and operando spectroscopies, ab initio techniques, to critical catalytic systems as relevant to energy and the environment. It provides the vision of addressing the foreseeable knowledge gap unfilled by classical knowledge in the field.

Heterogeneous Catalysts: Advanced Design, Characterization and Applications begins with an overview on the evolution in catalysts synthesis and introduces readers to facets engineering on catalysts; electrochemical synthesis of nanostructured catalytic thin films; and bandgap engineering of semiconductor photocatalysts. Next, it examines how we are gaining a more precise understanding of catalytic events and materials under working conditions. It covers bridging pressure gap in surface catalytic studies; tomography in catalysts design; and resolving catalyst performance at nanoscale via fluorescence microscopy. Quantum approaches to predicting molecular reactions on catalytic surfaces follows that, along with chapters on Density Functional Theory in heterogeneous catalysis; first principles simulation of electrified interfaces in electrochemistry; and high-throughput computational design of novel catalytic materials. The book also discusses embracing the energy and environmental challenges of the 21st century through heterogeneous catalysis and much more.

Presents recent developments in heterogeneous catalysis with emphasis on new fundamentals and emerging techniques Offers a comprehensive look at the important aspects of heterogeneous catalysis Provides an applications-oriented, bottoms-up approach to a high-interest subject that plays a vital role in industry and is widely applied in areas related to energy and environment

Heterogeneous Catalysts: Advanced Design, Characterization and Applications is an important book for catalytic chemists, materials scientists, surface chemists, physical chemists, inorganic chemists, chemical engineers, and other professionals working in the chemical industry.

About the Author: Wey Yang Teoh is Associate Professor in the School of Energy and Environment at the City University of Hong Kong, China. After his PhD in Chemical Engineering from The University of New South Wales, Australia, he worked as a Research Associate at the Australia Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials. During that time he was awarded the ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow. He is also the recipient of the Joseph Wang Award in Nanomaterials in 2016. His research interests focus on energy and environmental-related heterogeneous catalysis and he published more than 60 scientific papers.
Atsushi Urakawa is Professor at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain. He obtained his PhD from Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. After several years working as Senior Scientist/Lecturer at ETH Zurich, he joined ICIQ as Group Leader where he leads a research group with particular emphasis on heterogeneous catalysis and operando spectroscopy. He serves as the committee members of synchrotron facilities in Europe and Associate Editor of RSC Advances.
Yun Hau Ng is Lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Osaka University, Japan After a brief research visit to the Radiation Laboratory at University of Notre Dame, USA, he joined the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials at UNSW with the Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship and then became a Lecturer. His research interests focus on novel photoactive semiconductors for sunlight energy conversion. He received the Honda-Fujishima Prize in 2013 in recognition of his work in the area of photo-driven water splitting.
Patrick Sit is Assistant Professor in the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong, China. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, he was an associate research scholar in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University, USA and a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research is focused on fundamental reaction processes in energy-related systems.