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Abstract

There are two burning problems faced by living beings all over the globe. These are ever increasing water pollution and global warming. Photocatalysis has emerged as an eco-friendly technique for treatment of waste water containing non-biodegradable contaminants. These are stable enough, so that different treatment technologies are not sufficient enough to degrade or remove these toxic compounds. The problem of water pollution may be resolved to a greater extent by using photocatalytic materials. Most of these materials are less effective due to their large band gaps, which can be tuned by certain modifications of semiconductors such as doping, sensitization, composite formation, use of co-catalyst, Z- or S- schemes, etc. Use of nanomaterials can help in this direction due to increase in surface area (or active sites), but side wise, there is a widening of band gap. This all will be discussed with present status and future trends.

Biography

Prof. Suresh C. Ameta obtained his Master’s degree from university of Udaipur and was awarded gold medal-1970. He obtained Ph.D. degree from Vikram University in 1980. He has served as Professor & Head, Department of Chemistry, North Gujarat University Patan (1994) and M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur (2002-2005) & Head, Department of Polymer Science (2005-2008). He also served as Dean, P.G. Studies for a period of four years (2004-2008) in M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur and Dean, Faculty of Science, PAHER University, Udaipur (2011-2019). Now, he is serving as Professor of Eminence (Distinguished Professor), Faculty of Science, PAHER University, Udaipur. Prof. Ameta has an experience of more than 50 years of Teaching and Research. He has successfully guided 120 students for Ph. D. Prof. Ameta has occupied the prestigious position of President, Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata (2000-2001) and is now lifelong Advisor. He was awarded a number of prizes during his career like National prize twice for writing Chemistry books in Hindi, Prof. M. N. Desai Award, prof. W. U. Malik Award, Scientist of the Year Award, national Teacher Award, Prof. G. V. Bakore Award and above all, the Life Time Achievement Awards by Indian Chemical Society (2011), Kolkata Indian Council of Chemists, Agra (2015) and Association of Chemistry Teachers, Mumbai (2018) and North Gujrat University, Patan (2022). Dr. Ameta has more than 450 research papers and 36 books to his credit. He has contributed Chapters in Books published by Trans-Tech, Switzerland, Nova Science, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Springer, and Apple Academic Press, USA. He has seventeen books to his credit; including Green Chemistry, Microwave Assisted Organic Synthesis and Solar Energy Conversion & Storage, Group Theory, Photocatalysis, Solar Energy Conversion & Storage, Advanced Oxidation Processes for Waste Water Treatment and Sonochemistry all from International Publishers. Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata has published a Special issue of the Journal of Indian Chemical Society on his Sixtieth Birthday in 2008 and also instituted a National Prize in his honor as Prof. Suresh C. Ameta Award to be given to a Senior Scientist of the country from 2003 onwards. He has delivered Invited Lectures/ Keynote addresses in International Conferences at China, Japan, UK, USA, Spain, Italy, etc.