Metal Oxide Defects

Metal Oxide Defects: Fundamentals, Design, Development and Applications provides a broad perspective about the development of advanced experimental techniques to study defects, their chemical activity and catalytic reactivity in various metal oxides. It highlights the advances in characterization and analytical techniques to achieve better understanding of a wide range of defects, and most importantly the state-of-art methodologies for controlling defects. The defects in metal oxide systems arise either by pre-synthesis or post-synthesis treatments. The intention is to provide to control the introduction of well-defined defects in order to produce novel nanostructured metal oxide based materials with properties tailored for optoelectronic applications.

Metal Oxide Defects provides readers with pathways to apply basic principles and interpret the behavior of metal oxides. After reviewing characterization and analytical techniques, it focuses on the relationship of defects to the properties and performance of the metal oxides. Finally there is a review of the methods to control defects and the applications of defect engineering for the design of metal oxides for applications in optoelectronics, energy, sensing and more.