Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting reviews the fundamentals along with the strategies to design and fabricate metal oxide-based electrocatalysts. After an introduction to the key properties of transition metal oxides, materials engineering methods to optimize the performance of metal-oxide based electrocatalysts are discussed. Strategies reviewed include defect engineering, interface engineering and doping engineering.

Then, the book touches on other important categories of metal-oxide (and related solids) based catalysts including layered hyrdroxides, metal chalcogenides, metal phosphides, metal nitrides, metal borides, and more. Each of the chapters introduces the important properties and material design strategies including composite design and morphology design. There is an emphasis on cost-effective materials design and fabrication for optimized performance for electrocatalytic water splitting applications.

Lastly the book touches on the recently developed in-situ characterization methods applied to observe and control the material synthesis process.

Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting is suitable for materials scientists and engineers and chemical engineers working in the field of energy conversion and nanomaterials applications.