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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials
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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials

by Rafael Luque, Alina Mariana Balu
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 45m
English
CRC Press
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11
Tunable Biomass
Transformations by
Means of Photocatalytic
Nanomaterials
Juan Carlos Colmenares Quintero
11.1 INTRODUCTION
The eld of photocatalysis can be traced back a century ago to early observations of
the chalking of titania-based paints and to studies of the darkening of metal oxides in
contact with organic compounds in sunlight. Since the mid-1990s, it has become an
extremely well-researched eld due to the practical interest. The utilization of solar
irradiation to supply energy or to initiate chemical reactions is already an established
idea. If a wide-band gap semiconductor such as titanium dioxide (TiO
2
) is irradiated
with light, ...
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ISBN: 9781466553392