Graphene Oxide-Metal Oxide and other Graphene Oxide-Based Composites in Photocatalysis and Electrocatalysis

Graphene Oxide-Metal Oxide and other Graphene Oxide-Based Composites in Photocatalysis and Electrocatalysis reflects on recent progress and challenges in graphene-metal oxide composites. The book reviews synthetic strategies, characterization methods and applications in photocatalysis and electrocatalysis. Graphene-metal oxides, graphene-novel metals and other composites intended for sustainable energy production, energy storage, and environmental development such as H2 production, CO2 reduction, pollutant removal, supercapacitors and lithium ion batteries are covered. Overall, this book presents a comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date summary on graphene oxide-based materials. Graphene oxide and related composite materials bring new perspectives and prospects to both photocatalysts and electrocatalysts. The collective and synergistic effect between graphene oxide and metal oxide are manifold. The significance of the relationship among these groups of materials, their structures and performance is emphasized.

Professor Jiaguo Yu received his BS and MS degrees in Chemistry from Central China Normal University and Xi’an Jiaotong University, respectively, and his PhD degree in materials science in 2000 from Wuhan University of Technology. In 2000, he became a Professor at Wuhan University of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2001 to 2004, a visiting scientist from 2005 to 2006 at the University of Bristol, and a visiting scholar from 2007 to 2008 at University of Texas at Austin. He has won world renown due to his great accomplishments in scientific research by publishing over 600 high-impact SCI papers (149 highly cited ones) and five books, obtaining an H-index of 171. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (2020), a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (2020) and a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2015). He is also one of the 30 Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytics in three disciplines, i.e. Materials Science, Chemistry and Engineering from 2014 to 2022 worldwide, and the Thomson Reuters "Hottest Researcher" of 2012 in the world. Professor Liuyang Zhang received her Bachelor of Science degree (2012) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Subsequently, she received her Ph.D degree in Materials Science and Engineering from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2016. She worked as Research Fellow in NUS before joining the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing at Wuhan University of Technology as an associate professor. She has been a professor at China University of Geosciences since 2021. Her main research background lies in the area of photocatalysis and electrochemical energy storage. She has published more than 90 SCI papers and edited one book. She was chosen as one of the Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytics in 2022. Dr. Panyong Kuang received his master’s degree (2016) from Guangzhou University, and obtained his Ph.D. degree (2019) from Wuhan University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Jiaguo Yu. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Jiaguo Yu’s group in Wuhan University of Technology. His research interests are related to the design and fabrication of novel nanomaterials for water splitting.