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Physical chemistry of nanostructures

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 9360-0605/01
Abbreviation FChN
Course title Physical chemistry of nanostructures
Credits 6
Coordinating department CNT - Nanotechnology Centre
Course coordinator Ing. Ladislav Svoboda, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Electronic Structure of Semiconductors
2. Light, Excitation, and Charge Carrier Dynamics
3. Surface and Adsorption of Nanostructured Photocatalysts
4. Defects and Heterostructures
5. Photochemical Redox Processes and ROS
6. Mechanisms of Photocatalytic Reactions
7. Kinetics and Light Conditions
8. Characterization of Photocatalysts
9. From Nanostructure to Photocatalytic Activity

Literature

Nosaka, Y.; Nosaka, A. Introduction to Photocatalysis: From Basic Science to Applications. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016.
Linsebigler, A. L.; Lu, G.; Yates, J. T. Jr. Photocatalysis on TiO₂ Surfaces: Principles, Mechanisms, and Selected Results. Chemical Reviews, 1995, 95, 735–758.
Zhang, L.; Ran, J.; Qiao, S.-Z.; Jaroniec, M. Characterization of semiconductor photocatalysts. Chemical Society Reviews, 2019, 48, 5184–5206.

Advised literature

Zhang, J.; Tian, B.; Wang, L.; Xing, M.; Lei, J. et al. Photocatalysis: Fundamentals, Materials and Applications. Springer, 2018.
Hoffmann, M. R.; Martin, S. T.; Choi, W.; Bahnemann, D. W. Environmental Applications of Semiconductor Photocatalysis. Chemical Reviews, 1995, 95, 69–96.
Mills, A.; Le Hunte, S. An overview of semiconductor photocatalysis. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 1997, 108, 1–35.
Fujishima, A.; Tryk, D. A. Fundamentals of Photocatalysis. In Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry, 2007.
Teoh, W. Y.; Scott, J. A.; Amal, R. Progress in heterogeneous photocatalysis: from classical radical chemistry to engineering nanomaterials and solar reactors. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2012, 3, 629–639.