The book presents recent advances in the synthesis of bioinspired nanomaterials and their applications in areas such as photocatalysis, electrocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis, supercapacitors and solar cells.

• front-matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
• 1
  • Recent Advancement in Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles and their Catalytic Applications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Biogenic synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) and their catalytic applications
  • 3. Bioinspired synthesis of gold nanoparticles and their catalytic applications
  • 4. Bioinspired copper nanoparticles in catalysis
  • 5. Biomediated synthesis of palladium nanoparticles and their catalytic applications
  • 6. Bio-fabrication of platinum nanoparticles and their catalytic applications
  • 7. Green synthesis of iron nanoparticles and their catalytic applications
  • 8. Mechanism of catalytic conversion of 4- Nitrophenol to 4- Aminophenol using green synthesized metal nanoparticles
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • Conflict of interest
  • References
• 2
  • Bio-Inspired Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Photocatalytic Disinfection
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Photocatalytic method of disinfection
  • 3. Bio-inspired photocatalysts
    • 3.1 Bio-inspired nanostructures photocatalysts
    • 3.1.1 Biopolymers based photocatalysts
    • 3.1.2 Biochars based photocatalysts
    • 3.1.3 Immobilized enzymes, peptides and other biomolecules based photocatalysts
    • 3.1.4. Bio-inspired photocatalyst via green synthesis
  • 4. Bioinspired metal oxide nanostructures for photocatalytic disinfection
    • 4.1 Photocatalytic disinfection of biological pathogens using g-C3N4-based photocatalysts
    • 4.2 Photocatalytic disinfection using NiO nano-rods
    • 4.3 Photocatalytic inactivation of bacteria’s using FeONPs alone and FeONPs incorporated cotton fabrics materials
    • 4.4 Photocatalytic inactivation using nano-flower ZnO catalysts
    • 4.5 TiO2 nanoparticles to inactivate pathogens in water
    • 4.6 Photocatalytic inactivation of pathogens in water using extracellular biosynthesis of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles
    • 4.7 Photocatalytic inactivation using different doses of g-C3N4 photocatalysts
    • 4.8 Photocatalytic disinfection using C. abyssinica tuber extract mediated synthesized ZnO nanoparticles
    • 4.9 Photocatalytic inactivation analysis using Biosynthesis of Ag deposited phosphorus and sulfur co-doped g-C3N4 (Ag-PSCN) nanocomposite
    • 4.10 Photocatalytic disinfection of pathogens in water using Nd2WO6/ZnO incorporated on GO (NWZG) nanocomposite
    • 4.11 Visible-light-driven photocatalytic disinfection of bacteria’s using Zea mays L. dry husk mediated bio-synthesized copper oxide nanoparticles
    • 4.12 Efficient photocatalytic disinfection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 using C70-TiO2 hybrid material under visible light irradiation
    • 4.12.1 Photocatalytic disinfection mechanism
    • 4.13 Antibacterial assay on SnO2 doped GO and CNT under visible light irradiation
    • 4.14 Photocatalytic inactivation on ZnO nanoparticle under visible light irradiation
    • 4.15 Photocatalytic disinfection of bacterial pathogens using MgO nanostructures
  • Conclusions
  • References
• 3
  • Bioinspired Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic Degradation of Toxic Chemicals
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. General principles and charge separation of semiconductor photocatalysis
  • 3. Synthesis of plant-mediated nanomaterials
  • 4. Bio-mediated noble metal nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals
  • 5. Bio-mediated transition metal nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals
  • 6. Bio-mediated metal nanoparticles based nanocomposites for photocatalytic degradation of toxic chemicals
  • 7. Bio-mediated ZnO nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals
  • 8. Bio-mediated iron oxide nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals
  • 9. Bio-mediated other metal oxide nanoparticles and its photocatalytic degradation towards toxic chemicals
  • 10. Bio-mediated metal oxide based nanocomposites for photocatalytic degradation of toxic chemicals
  • 11. Microorganism mediated nanomaterials for photocatalytic degradation of toxic chemicals
  • Conclusion and future outlook
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 4
  • Bioinspired Nanostructured Materials for Energy-Related Electrocatalysis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Energy-related electrocatalytic processes
  • 3. Synthesis and characterization of key bioinspired materials
  • 4. Applications of bioinspired materials in energy-related electrocatalytic processes
    • 4.1. Bioinspired nanomaterials as oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst
    • 4.2. Bioinspired nanomaterials for hydrogen evolution and oxygen evolution reaction
    • 4.3. Bioinspired nanomaterials for small organic molecule oxidation reaction
  • Conclusions and future perspectives
  • References
• 5
  • Bioinspired Nanomaterials for Supercapacitor Applications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Nanostructured materials for electrostatic double-layer capacitors (EDLCs)
    • 2.1 Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
    • 2.2 Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)
    • 2.3 Bioinspired CNTs and graphene in Electrostatic double-layer capacitors (EDLCs)
    • 2.4 Bioinspired peptide based nanotubes electrodes for EDLC
    • 2.5 Biomass-derived carbon
  • 3. Nanostructured materials for pseudocapacitors
    • 3.1 Metal hexacyanoferrates
    • 3.2 Metal oxides
    • 3.3 Ruthenium oxide (RuO2)
    • 3.4 Manganese oxide (MnO2)
    • 3.5 Cobalt oxide (CaO)
    • 3.6 Other MOs
    • 3.7 Transition Metal Sulfides (TMS)
    • 3.8 Bioinspired conducting polymers (CPs) nanostructures
  • Concluding remarks and future prospects
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• 6
  • Bio-Mediated Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bio-mediated synthesis of nanoparticles
  • 3. Bio-mediated synthesis of nanoparticles for diverse applications
  • 4. Overview of dye sensitized solar cells
  • 5. Bio-synthesized nanoparticles for dye-sensitized solar cell application
  • 6. Bio-mediated approach for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles for DSSCs application
    • 6.1 Ag Nanoparticles
    • 6.2 Au nanoparticles
  • 7. Bio-mediated synthesised metaloxide nanoparticles for DSSCs application
  • 8. Bio-synthesized of Core-shell/QDs on DSSCs Application
  • Summary and conclusion
  • Reference
• 7
  • Bioinspired Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Photoelectrochemical Applications
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic principle of photo electrochemical cell
  • 3. Challenges
  • 4. Bioinspired strategies
  • Conclusion
  • References
• back-matter
  • Keyword Index
  • About the Editors