Description:
Metal Oxide-Carbon Hybrid Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications reviews the advances in the fabrication and application of metal oxide-carbon-based nanocomposite materials. Their unique properties make them ideal materials for gas-sensing, photonics, catalysis, opto-electronic, and energy-storage applications.
In the first section, the historical background to the hybrid materials based on metal oxide-carbon and the hybridized metal oxide composites is provided. It also highlights several popular methods for the preparation of metal oxide-carbon composites through solid-state or solution-phase reactions, and extensively discusses the materials' properties.
Fossil fuels and renewable energy sources cannot meet the ever-increasing energy demands of an industrialized and technology-driven global society. Therefore, the role of metal oxide-carbon composites in energy generation, hydrogen production, and storage devices, such as rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, is of extreme importance. These problems are discussed in in the second section of the book.
Rapid industrialization has resulted in serious environmental issues which in turn have caused serious health problems that require the immediate attention of researchers. In the third section, the use of metal oxide-carbon composites in water purification, photodegradation of industrial contaminants, and biomedical applications that can help to clean the environment and provide better healthcare solutions is described.
The final section is devoted to the consideration of problems associated with the development of sensors for various applications. Numerous studies performed in this area have shown that the use of composites can significantly improve the operating parameters of such devices.
Metal Oxide-Carbon Hybrid Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications presents a comprehensive review of the science related to metal oxide-carbon composites and how researchers are utilizing these materials to provide solutions to a large array of problems.
Brief description: Dr. Muhammad Akram Chaudhry currently serves as assistant professor of chemistry at the Government Associate College, Raiwind (Lahore, Pakistan). He holds his MSc (chemistry) from the Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore (Pakistan). He taught at the University of Baluchistan, Quetta for 3 years and attended the University of the Punjab, where he completed his MPhil (chemistry). During his stay there, he worked on the spectrophotometric determination of fluoroquinolone drugs and developed a simple and cheap method for their determination. In 2011, he joined Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, to pursue research work in the field of nanosized ceramic materials and received his doctorate in 2014. His PhD dissertation was on the "Synthesis and Characterization of Ceramic Nanoparticles through Continuous Microwave Flow Synthesis Process." His current research interest is focused on continuous microwave flow synthesis and the microwave-assisted synthesis of nanostructured materials, including biomaterials and photocatalytic materials. His work also involves probing the properties and applications of nanostructured material in various fields especially in biomedical and electrochemical devices. He is working collaboratively with various research groups and has published more than 35 research articles/book chapters as an author/coauthor in peer-reviewed international SCI-indexed journals with various publishers, such as Elsevier, Springer, IOP, and Wiley, with an h-index of 16 and 1003 citations.