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Electrospun Nanofiber-Based Photocatalysts

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Electrospun Nanofibers for Energy and Environmental Applications

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Electrospinning technique combining with the calcination process affords a simple and versatile method to generate inorganic nanostructures with well-defined compositions and structures. Additionally, the electrospun polymeric nanofibers with large surface area and porous structures provide a platform to support inorganic semiconductor nanostructures. Various kinds of inorganic nanostructured semiconductors such as titanium dioxide (TiO2), zinc oxide (ZnO), stannic oxide (SnO2), tungsten trioxide (WO3), cadmium sulfide (CdS), etc., have been proved to be good photocatalysts for many kinds of applications including decomposition of organic pollutants, hydrogen production from water splitting, photocatalytic reduction of CO2, dye-sensitized solar cells, fabricating self-cleaning surface, and antibacterial or anticancer activity. The electrospun nanofiber-based photocatalysts take the advantages of the optional design of the nanostructures (such as solid, porous, hollow, core-sheath, hierarchical fibers, etc.), thus exhibiting a high photocatalytic property. In this chapter, we present the applications of electrospun inorganic semiconductor nanofibers and the electrospun polymeric nanofibers containing semiconductor nanoparticles for photocatalysis. Within these nanostructures, the effect of the chemical composition, the size, the crystal phase, and the doping state of the semiconductors on the photocatalytic performance is widely discussed.

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Lu, X., Wang, C. (2014). Electrospun Nanofiber-Based Photocatalysts. In: Ding, B., Yu, J. (eds) Electrospun Nanofibers for Energy and Environmental Applications. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54160-5_15

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