Bioinspired Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications

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The book presents recent advances in the synthesis of bioinspired nanomaterials and their applications in areas such as photocatalysis, electrocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis, supercapacitors and solar cells. Specific topics include photocatalytic disinfection, degradation of toxic chemicals, energy conversion and energy storage. Keywords: Bionanomaterials, Nanomaterial Synthesis, Green Synthesis, Metal Nanoparticles, Metal Oxide Nanostructures, Photocatalysis, Electrocatalysis, Photoelectrocatalysis, Energy-Related Electrocatalysis, Supercapacitors, Disinfection, Toxic Chemicals, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. front-matter Table of Contents Preface 1 Recent Advancement in Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles and their Catalytic Applications 1. Introduction 2. Biogenic synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) and their catalytic applications 3. Bioinspired synthesis of gold nanoparticles and their catalytic applications 4. Bioinspired copper nanoparticles in catalysis 5. Biomediated synthesis of palladium nanoparticles and their catalytic applications 6. Bio-fabrication of platinum nanoparticles and their catalytic applications 7. Green synthesis of iron nanoparticles and their catalytic applications 8. Mechanism of catalytic conversion of 4- Nitrophenol to 4- Aminophenol using green synthesized metal nanoparticles Conclusion Acknowledgement Conflict of interest References 2 Bio-Inspired Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Photocatalytic Disinfection 1. Introduction 2. Photocatalytic method of disinfection 3. Bio-inspired photocatalysts 3.1 Bio-inspired nanostructures photocatalysts 3.1.1 Biopolymers based photocatalysts 3.1.2 Biochars based photocatalysts 3.1.3 Immobilized enzymes, peptides and other biomolecules based photocatalysts 3.1.4. Bio-inspired photocatalyst via green synthesis 4. Bioinspired metal oxide nanostructures for photocatalytic disinfection 4.1 Photocatalytic disinfection of biological pathogens using g-C3N4-based photocatalysts 4.2 Photocatalytic disinfection using NiO nano-rods 4.3 Photocatalytic inactivation of bacteria’s using FeONPs alone and FeONPs incorporated cotton fabrics materials 4.4 Photocatalytic inactivation using nano-flower ZnO catalysts 4.5 TiO2 nanoparticles to inactivate pathogens in water 4.6 Photocatalytic inactivation of pathogens in water using extracellular biosynthesis of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles 4.7 Photocatalytic inactivation using different doses of g-C3N4 photocatalysts 4.8 Photocatalytic disinfection using C. abyssinica tuber extract mediated synthesized ZnO nanoparticles 4.9 Photocatalytic inactivation analysis using Biosynthesis of Ag deposited phosphorus and sulfur co-doped g-C3N4 (Ag-PSCN) nanocomposite 4.10 Photocatalytic disinfection of pathogens in water using Nd2WO6/ZnO incorporated on GO (NWZG) nanocomposite 4.11 Visible-light-driven photocatalytic disinfection of bacteria’s using Zea mays L. dry husk mediated bio-synthesized copper oxide nanoparticles 4.12 Efficient photocatalytic disinfection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 using C70-TiO2 hybrid material under visible light irradiation 4.12.1 Photocatalytic disinfection mechanism 4.13 Antibacterial assay on SnO2 doped GO and CNT under visible light irradiation 4.14 Photocatalytic inactivation on ZnO nanoparticle under visible light irradiation 4.15 Photocatalytic disinfection of bacterial pathogens using MgO nanostructures Conclusions References 3 Bioinspired Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic Degradation of Toxic Chemicals 1. Introduction 2. General principles and charge separation of semiconductor photocatalysis 3. Synthesis of plant-mediated nanomaterials 4. Bio-mediated noble metal nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals 5. Bio-mediated transition metal nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals 6. Bio-mediated metal nanoparticles based nanocomposites for photocatalytic degradation of toxic chemicals 7. Bio-mediated ZnO nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals 8. Bio-mediated iron oxide nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals 9. Bio-mediated other metal oxide nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals 10. Bio-mediated metal oxide based nanocomposites for photocatalytic degradation of toxic chemicals 11. Microorganism mediated nanomaterials for photocatalytic degradation of toxic chemicals Conclusion and future outlook Acknowledgments References 4 Bioinspired Nanostructured Materials for Energy-Related Electrocatalysis 1. Introduction 2. Energy-related electrocatalytic processes 3. Synthesis and characterization of key bioinspired materials 4. Applications of bioinspired materials in energy-related electrocatalytic processes 4.1. Bioinspired nanomaterials as oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst 4.2. Bioinspired nanomaterials for hydrogen evolution and oxygen evolution reaction 4.3. Bioinspired nanomaterials for small organic molecule oxidation reaction Conclusions and future perspectives References 5 Bioinspired Nanomaterials for Supercapacitor Applications 1. Introduction 2. Nanostructured materials for electrostatic double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) 2.1 Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) 2.2 Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) 2.3 Bioinspired CNTs and graphene in Electrostatic double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) 2.4 Bioinspired peptide based nanotubes electrodes for EDLC 2.5 Biomass-derived carbon 3. Nanostructured materials for pseudocapacitors 3.1 Metal hexacyanoferrates 3.2 Metal oxides 3.3 Ruthenium oxide (RuO2) 3.4 Manganese oxide (MnO2) 3.5 Cobalt oxide (CaO) 3.6 Other MOs 3.7 Transition Metal Sulfides (TMS) 3.8 Bioinspired conducting polymers (CPs) nanostructures Concluding remarks and future prospects Acknowledgements References 6 Bio-Mediated Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells 1. Introduction 2. Bio-mediated synthesis of nanoparticles 3. Bio-mediated synthesis of nanoparticles for diverse applications 4. Overview of dye sensitized solar cells 5. Bio-synthesized nanoparticles for dye-sensitized solar cell application 6. Bio-mediated approach for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles for DSSCs application 6.1 Ag Nanoparticles 6.2 Au nanoparticles 7. Bio-mediated synthesised metaloxide nanoparticles for DSSCs application 8. Bio-synthesized of Core-shell/QDs on DSSCs Application Summary and conclusion Reference 7 Bioinspired Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Photoelectrochemical Applications 1. Introduction 2. Basic principle of photo electrochemical cell 3. Challenges 4. Bioinspired strategies Conclusion References back-matter Keyword Index About the Editors