Meet the editor

Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Ali received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, in 2011. He worked as a postdoc at the Water and Energy Laboratory, University of California, Merced, United States, in 2016. He is currently an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Miner-

als, Saudi Arabia. His fields of research include thermal sciences and heat transfer with a focus on electronics cooling, condensation, nanofluids, heat transfer devices, and thermal management. Dr. Ali has supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has more than 230 published journal papers to his credit. He has participated at several international and national conferences as an invited speaker and delivered various keynote talks. Dr. Ali was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in the Field of Engineering by the Web of Science in 2021. He was also recognized as being in the top 2% of researchers by Stanford University in 2020 and 2021. He has received numerous awards, including the Best Young Research Scholar Award in Engineering by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan in 2017, HEC's Best Research Paper Award in 2013–2014, and the Research Productivity Award from the Pakistan Council of Science and Technology in 2016–2017. In addition to his academic duties, Dr. Ali is an active editorial member of several international journals, including *Heat Transfer Engineering, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry*, and *International Journal of Thermofluids.*

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

on Recent Advancement

**Preface XI**

**Acknowledgement V**

Thermal Energy Applications of Titanium Dioxide **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25**

Semiconductor Applications of Titanium Dioxide **45**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 63**

Environmental Applications of Titanium Dioxide **85**

**Chapter 5 87**

**Chapter 6 107**

Titanium Dioxide: Advancements and Thermal Applications *by Tayyab Raza Shah, Chao Zhou and Hafiz Muhammad Ali*

Titanium Dioxide as Energy Storage Material: A Review

*by Azrina Abd Aziz, Fatema Khatun, Minhaj Uddin Monir,* 

Photocatalytic Applications of Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) *by Atta ul Haq, Muhammad Saeed, Samreen Gul Khan* 

Titanium Dioxide Thin Films for Environmental Applications

Titanium Dioxide – A Missing Photo-Responsive Material

*by Wafa Selmi, Nabil Hosni, Jamila Ben Naceur, Hager Maghraoui-Meherzi and Radhouane Chtourou*

for Solar-Driven Oil Spill Remediation

*by Tarun Parangi and Manish Kumar Mishra*

TiO2: A Semiconductor Photocatalyst

*Sim Lan Ching and Leong Kah Hon*

*and Muhammad Ibrahim*

*by Haruna Adamu*
