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Sebastian Wojciech Przemieniecki, Marta Borsuk-Stanulewicz, Cezary Purwin, Olga Kosewska and Magdalena Ocwieja
The aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of three forms of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and their effect on the yield, chemical and microbiological quality of perennial ryegrass herbage and silage. Two types of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (T...
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Gianina Huayna, Antonio Laura, Rossibel Churata, Luis Lazo, Rivalino Guzmán, Pierre G. Ramos and Juan M. Rodriguez
In the present work, a TiO2/zeolite photocatalyst was synthesized by dispersing TiO2 nanoparticles obtained through the sol-gel method onto the surface of natural zeolite derived from ignimbrite residue. The zeolite was obtained from an ignimbrite rubble...
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Noor irinah Omar, Yusliza Yusuf, Syahrul Azwan bin Sundi, Ilyani Akmar Abu Bakar, Verry Andre Fabiani, Toibah Abdul Rahim and Motohiro Yamada
The cold spray or Supersonic Particle Deposition technique has great potential for producing ceramic nanostructured coatings. This technique operates at a processing temperature that is low enough to preserve the initial feedstock materials? microstructu...
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Anthi S. Stefanarou, Vasileios E. Katzourakis, Fenglian Fu, Anastasios A. Malandrakis and Constantinos V. Chrysikopoulos
Human activities in modern life are contributing significantly to global environmental pollution. With the need for clean drinking water ever increasing, so does the need to find new water-cleaning technologies. The ability of nanoparticles (NPs) to remo...
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Stephan Lederer, Sigrid Benfer, Jonathan Bloh, Rezan Javed, Aneta Pashkova and Wolfram Fuerbeth
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Ahmed Akram EL-Awady, Hussein Nassef Al-Khalifa, Raafat Elghetany Mohamed, Mohamed Mohamed Ali, Khaled Farouk Abdallah, Mostafa Mohamed Hosny, Ahmed Abdel Salam Mohamed, Khaled Samy ElHabbak and Farouk Ahmed Hussein
This in vitro study compared the shear bond strength (SBS) and antibacterial efficacy of an orthodontic adhesive containing either cinnamon or titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs). A total sample of 120 freshly extracted teeth was randomly divided...
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Alexey Prosviryakov and Andrey Bazlov
In this work, we studied the effect of thermal exposure on the microstructure and mechanical properties of an Al-5 wt.% TiO2 composite material with additions of 5 wt.% Cu and 2 wt.% stearic acid as a process control agent (PCA), obtained by mechanical a...
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Angelantonio De Benedetto, Agnese De Luca, Paolo Pellegrino, Rosaria Rinaldi, Valeria De Matteis and Mariafrancesca Cascione
The utilization of hydrogen (H2) as a renewable and clean energy carrier, free from the reliance on fossil fuels, represents a significant technological challenge. The use of renewable energy sources for hydrogen production, such as photocatalytic hydrog...
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Seyed Naveed Hosseini, Xiaodan Chen, Patrick J. Baesjou, Arnout Imhof and Alfons van Blaaderen
Highly crystalline, organic-solvent-dispersible titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanorods (NRs) present promising chemicophysical properties in many diverse applications. In this paper, based on a modified procedure from literature, TiO2 NRs were synthesized via ...
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Shengfeng Yang, Kezhen Yan and Wenyao Liu
In recent years, nanoparticles have been introduced into warm-mix-modified asphalt to improve asphalt performance after sustaining ultraviolet (UV) aging, yet the evaluation of aging performance is often a descriptive characterization of rheological prop...
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Sadjo Danfá, Cátia Oliveira, Regina Santos, Rui C. Martins, Margarida M. J. Quina and João Gomes
Water scarcity is one of the major concerns of this century. The photocatalysis through TiO2 can be suitable for improving liquid wastewater treatment. However, TiO2 is used as a powder (nanoparticles), which is a drawback for full-scale applications. To...
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Vytautas Kavaliunas, Paulius Ceplikas, Mantas Sriubas and Giedrius Laukaitis
The formation of Ag nanoparticles on the surface of TiO2 (AgNP/TiO2) to enhance photocatalytic efficiency was studied. The Ag nanoparticles (AgNP) size, form, and distribution dependence on the initial thickness of Ag thin films, annealing temperature, a...
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Angélica María Castro-Hoyos, Manuel Alejandro Rojas Manzano and Aníbal Maury-Ramírez
Since the early seventies with the work of Akira Fujishima on photocatalytic and superhydrophilic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2), also known as the Honda?Fujishima effect, photocatalysis has been investigated and progressively implemented in cemen...
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Evgeniy V. Orekhov, Andrey Yu. Arbenin, Elena G. Zemtsova, Darya N. Sokolova, Alexandra N. Ponomareva, Maxim A. Shevtsov, Natalia M. Yudintceva and Vladimir M. Smirnov
Modern materials science, both in terms of functional and structural materials, is actively developing towards the creation of structures with a given ordering. A wide range of methods involves ordering the structure according to a template shape. Templa...
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Ahmed Hayali, Roger J. Reeves and Maan M. Alkaisi
The efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) depend not only on the perovskite film quality, but they are also influenced by the charge carriers of both the electron and hole transport layers (ETL and HTL). Doping of the carrier transpor...
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Jong-Won Lee and Cheolmin Baek
Nitrogen oxide (NOx), emitted at the highest rate among automobile exhaust gases, is the main cause of air pollution, and various construction technologies are being developed to reduce NOx emissions. In this study, the NOx reduction effect of surface tr...
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Anthi S. Stefanarou and Constantinos V. Chrysikopoulos
Formaldehyde (FA) is an extremely active compound that is widely used in numerous applications. Given that FA is a known carcinogen, it is essential to remove it from the environment. Titanium dioxide (TiO2), due to its special physicochemical properties...
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Laura Rosero Parra, Lizeth Guerrero Pantoja, Natali Lorena Mena, Fiderman Machuca-Martínez and Julian Urresta
The effectiveness of two photocatalysts, TiO2 and SnO, supported on graphene oxide (TiO2-GO and SnO-GO) on the removal of organic matter from hospital wastewater effluent was evaluated at laboratory scale. The results of the experimental design allow us ...
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Samuel Alejandro Monclou Salcedo,Sandra Natalia Correa Torres,María Irene Kopytko,Claudia Santoyo Muñóz,Diana Marcela Vesga Guzmán,Rubi Castellares Lozano,Marialejandra López Amaris,Adriana Patricia Herrera Barros
The ability of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) to attenuate and control several microorganisms was studied, especially for a disease that affects the health and productiveness of crops. For this purpose, the antifungal capacity of TiO2 nanopart...
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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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