Metastable-Phase Materials

Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications

Qi Shao, Zhenhui Kang, Mingwang Shao

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9783527351053
• eBook ISBN: 9783527839810
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Thermodynamics
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Discover the cutting-edge progress of a promising class of materials significant for use in energy technologies as catalysts

Materials are said to be metastable-phases if they can retain their stability when subjected only to slight disturbances. Materials in metastable-phases can have very different properties from those in a state of equilibrium, and can perform very differently under conditions of experimentation, work, or industrial use. Metastable-phase materials are therefore a promising area of study in a variety of different fields, including cutting-edge industries.

Metastable-Phase Materials constitute a wide-ranging overview of these materials, their properties, and their applications. Beginning with an overall characterization of metastable-phase materials and their normal modes of synthesis, it characterizes the most important branch of metastable-phase materials and reviews a range of catalytic applications. The result is a critical contribution to materials science and catalytic chemistry with potentially far-reaching implications.

Metastable-Phase Materials readers will also find:

• Treatment of metastable-phase metal materials, 2D metastable-phase materials, and spin-dependent metastable-phase materials
• Detailed discussion of metastable-phase material applications in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, thermalcatalysis, and more
• State-of-the-art technological applications in a myriad of areas

Metastable-Phase Materials are ideal for materials scientists, catalytic chemists, inorganic chemists, photochemists, electrochemists, organic chemists, and the libraries that serve these communities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Introduction of the Metastable‐Phase Materials
• Chapter 2 Synthetic Methodology
• Chapter 3 Characterization
• Chapter 4 Metastable‐Phase Metals
• Chapter 5 Metastable‐Phase Oxide, Chalcogenide, Phosphide, and Boride Materials
• Chapter 6 Spin‐Dependent Metastable‐Phase Materials
• Chapter 7 Crystallography, Design, and Synthesis of Two‐Dimensional Metastable‐Phase Oxides
• Chapter 8 Electrocatalysis
• Chapter 9 Photocatalysis
• Chapter 10 Thermocatalysts
• Summary and Outlook
• Index
• EULA