Fabian I. Ezema - Chemically Deposited Metal Chalcogenide-based Carbon Composites for Versatile Applications

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One of the innovative and useful materials now being researched for potential applications and prospects for value addition for ongoing quality and performance improvement is metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites. Numerous popular science and engineering databases, including Scopus and Web of Science, can be used to search through the vast body of engineering and science literature on metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites. However, reports of novel materials, processing methods, and structure-to-property and processing-to-property correlations are ongoing. Reviews are published in journals on a regular basis in ever-increasing numbers, yet the aim of having them all in one place is frequently defeated by their diversity and dispersion.

In this book, significant papers on the synthesis, characterizations, and applications of chemically deposited metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites for versatile applications are collected. This book has developed from our earlier one on chemically produced nanocrystalline metal oxide thin films for a variety of applications.

It is clear that the book now available on chemically deposited metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites for energy conversion, storage, and sensing might assist the community in accessing the necessary resources in a single location. As a result, the book was designed to offer advice on chemically produced metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites for energy conversion (photovoltaic); chemically produced metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites for energy storage (supercapacitors and batteries); and chemically processed metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites for sensing, simulation, and modelling.

The first 8 chapters of this book, which has a total of 14 chapters, are devoted to providing general information on the development of solution-processed metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites, their properties and applications, their structural and electronic properties, and the insights gained from first-principles calculations on the properties derived from Chap. of the book.

The subsequent five chapters thoroughly discuss the water-splitting and photovoltaic uses of carbon composites based on metal chalcogenides. Reviews on the subjects most recent developments in general as well as the advantages of metal chalcogenide-based carbon composites for photovoltaic activity are covered. The chapters also cover photoelectrochemical cells, hydrogen production, and the use of carbon composites based on metal chalcogenides for photocatalysis.

Lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors, and other energy storage technologies are the subjects of the majority of this books chapters, along with broader energy storage topics.

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