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Md. Rakibul Islam, Jahida Binte Islam, Mai Furukawa, Ikki Tateishi, Hideyuki Katsumata and Satoshi Kaneco
The photocatalytic degradation of picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridincarboxylic acid), which is one of popular acidic herbicide, was investigated with the existence of titanium oxide (TiO2) under sunlight. The total photocatalytic degradation of ...
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Sadaf Naz, Rimsha Kalsoom, Faisal Ali, Nyla Amjed, Umer Younas, Muhammad Pervaiz, Mabkhoot Alsaiari, M. Faisal, Farid A. Harraz and Rafael Luque
Current work describes green synthesis of Fe, Mn (monometallic) and Fe-Mn (bimetallic) nanoparticles using Cannabis sativa leaf extract as stabilizing and capping agent. In order to assess the formation of nanoparticles UV/Vis and FTIR analysis was carri...
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Lethula E. Mofokeng, Lerato Hlekelele, John Moma, Zikhona N. Tetana and Vongani P. Chauke
Photocatalytic membranes possessing both photocatalytic and solid-liquid separation capabilities were developed. These materials are based on ternary 1% CuO/TiO2@GCN (1:9) embedded on cellulose acetate (CA) via the phase inversion method. The CA membrane...
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John Kyriakopoulos, Eleana Kordouli, Kyriakos Bourikas, Christos Kordulis and Alexis Lycourghiotis
The majority of the photocatalysts studied for azo-dye degradation are based on semiconductor materials. Studies reported on non-semiconducting materials are very scarce. In the present work, we studied the fullerene (C60) ability to accelerate photodegr...
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Chunying Wang, Ting Zeng, Sipin Zhu and Chuantao Gu
Rare earth elements are plentiful in Gannan area, China, and there is a large amount of wastewater from all kinds of mines. In this paper, rare-earth modification TiO2 composites (RE/TiO2, RE = La, Ce, Gd, Yb) was studied by theory computation and experi...
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Md. Ashraful Islam Molla, Mai Furukawa, Ikki Tateishi, Hideyuki Katsumata and Satoshi Kaneco
In the present study, the photocatalytic degradation of alachlor was investigated using TiO2 under sunlight irradiation. The effects of some operational parameters, such as photocatalyst concentration, temperature, pH, sunlight intensity and irradiation ...
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João Gomes, João Lincho, Eva Domingues, Rosa M. Quinta-Ferreira and Rui C. Martins
Titanium dioxide is the most used photocatalyst in wastewater treatment; its semiconductor capacity allows the indirect production of reactive oxidative species. The main drawback of the application of TiO2 is related to its high band-gap energy. The non...
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Reza Katal, Saeid Masudy Panah, Mehrdad Zarinejad, Mojtaba Salehi and Hu Jiangyong
In this study, faceted TiO2, predominately exposed with {010} facets (T-{010}), was synthesized with a two-step hydrothermal reaction and used for the degradation of acetaminophen (ACE) in an aqueous solution. T-{010} showed considerable photocatalytic r...
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Beatriz González, Bárbara Muñoz, Miguel Angel Vicente, Raquel Trujillano, Vicente Rives, Antonio Gil and Sophia Korili
Montmorillonite?TiO2 nanocomposites were prepared using two different methods (ultrasonic or stirring) and using titanium(IV) isopropoxide as precursor. The solids were characterized by element chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction, FTIR spectroscopy, the...
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Md. Ashraful Islam Molla, Ikki Tateishi, Mai Furukawa, Hideyuki Katsumata, Tohru Suzuki and Satoshi Kaneco
A dye-sensitization technique was applied to effective catalysts?TiO2 and ZnO?under fluorescent light irradiation for Orange II (OII) and Methyl Orange (MO) degradations. Treatments were carried out at different time periods using 20 mg of catalysts and ...
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S. Minisha, J. Johnson, Saikh Mohammad, Jeetendra Kumar Gupta, Sikandar Aftab, Asma A. Alothman and Wen-Cheng Lai
The study aims to contribute valuable insights into the potential applications of the photocatalyst, particularly in the realms of sustainable energy and environmental remediation. Here, Zn-doped NiO nanoparticles with different mole percentages of zinc ...
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Xueyu Wei, Saraschandra Naraginti, Pengli Chen, Jiyuan Li, Xiaofan Yang and Buwei Li
Antibiotic pollution beyond the safety limits poses a significant threat to the environmental sustainability and human health which necessitates the development of efficient methods for reducing antibiotics in pharmaceutical wastewater. Photocatalysis is...
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Xianyong Guo, Fan Gao, Haoxuan Cui, Jiaxuan Liu, Hairong Wang, Lixin Liang, Yinghai Wu, Li Wan, Jing Wang, Cuiya Zhang and Guangjing Xu
In this study, magnetic CuFe2O4, MgFe2O4, and ZnFe2O4 nanosphere photocatalysts were prepared by the sol?gel method at 300 °C, 400 °C, and 500 °C, respectively (named as CF300, CF400, CF500, MF300, MF400, MF500, ZF300, ZF400, and ZF500). The characteriza...
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J. H. Ramírez Franco, S. D. Castañeda Cárdenas and H. R. Zea Ramírez
Clinical laboratory wastewaters are of important environmental concern due to the highly complex chemical reagents and dyes used to identify various pathologies, which are difficult to degrade by conventional treatment methods. The present research aimed...
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Ming Lu, Jiaqi Dong, Mingzhu Hu, Guofeng Cheng and Juan Lv
With the extensive use and improper treatment of antibiotics, antibiotic pollution in aquaculture wastewater has become increasingly severe. Tetracycline antibiotics have become one of the most commonly used fishery antibiotics. In this study, a Z-scheme...
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Moses T. Yilleng, Nancy Artioli, David Rooney and Haresh Manyar
Palladium@mesoporous titania core@shell nanoparticles with uniform and narrow particle size distribution were synthesised using a four component ??water in oil?? microemulsion system. The prepared materials were well characterised using N2 adsorption?des...
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Parvathiraja Chelliah, Jeetendra Kumar Gupta, Saikh Mohammad Wabaidur, Masoom Raza Siddiqui, Siaw Foon Lee and Wen-Cheng Lai
The present work shows the obtainment of biosynthesized SiO2 with the aid of Jasminum grandiflorum plant extract and the study of its photocatalytic ability in dye degradation and antibacterial activity. The obtained biosynthesized SiO2 nanoparticles wer...
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Athanasia Petala, Athanasia Nasiou, Dionissios Mantzavinos and Zacharias Frontistis
The present study examines the photocatalytic properties of silver carbonate (Ag2CO3) for ethyl paraben (EP) degradation under simulated solar irradiation. Ag2CO3 was prepared according to a solution method and its physicochemical characteristics were st...
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Momoka Nagamine, Magdalena Osial, Krystyna Jackowska, Pawel Krysinski and Justyna Widera-Kalinowska
Industrialization and the growing consumption of medicines leads to global aquatic contamination. One of the antibiotics widely used against bacterial infections in both human and veterinary medicine is tetracycline. Despite its positive antibiotic actio...
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Rodrigue Djeda, Gilles Mailhot and Vanessa Prevot
Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH)/TiO2 nanocomposites with photocatalytic properties were synthesized by both impregnation and the direct coprecipitation of LDH matrices using a colloidal suspension of TiO2 nanoparticles. While the two methods led to an eff...
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