Bismuth-Based Materials for Environmental Remediation

Environmental effluence has become the major issue for civilisation. Recently, the World Wide Fund (WWF) organisation reported, approximately 1.1 billion people world-wide face problems with the lack of access to fresh water and 2.7 billion people face shortage of water for one month in a year. Thus, wastewater treatment has similar importance to solve clean water scarcity problems and environmental remediation. Catalysis/photocatalysis has played an important role worldwide for environmental remediation and water purification during the last few decades. This book will discuss in depth Bismuth series-based catalysts for wastewater treatment. The book includes a general introduction, fundamental aspects, basic principles of environmental remediation techniques, and synthesis methods of Bismuth series-based materials. The book also includes the Bismuth oxyhalides, bismuth oxides, BiaAOb, defects in bismuth series, facets dependent bismuth series, and bismuth series composites based nanostructured materials synthesis and their utilisation towards environmental remediation. The book describes both the current scenario and future scope of bismuth series towards environmental remediation.

This book is aimed at Researchers/Academicians from various disciplines such as Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Energy Engineering, in the particular context of energy and environmental applications.