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A Review of Solar and Visible Light Active TiO2 Photocatalysis for Treating Bacteria, Cyanotoxins and Contaminants of Emerging Concern

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In this paper, the authors compared the effectiveness of various visible light activated TiO2 photocatalysts for treating contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), bacteria and cyanotoxins.
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This article is published in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing.The article was published on 2016-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 486 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Photocatalysis.

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Generation and Detection of Reactive Oxygen Species in Photocatalysis

TL;DR: The detection methods and generation mechanisms of the intrinsic reactive oxygen species (ROS) in photocatalysis were surveyed comprehensively and the major photocatalyst used in heterogeneous photocatalytic systems was found to be TiO2.
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Visible-light activation of TiO2 photocatalysts: Advances in theory and experiments

TL;DR: In this article, advances in the strategies for the visible light activation, origin of visible light activity, and electronic structure of various visible-light active TiO 2 photocatalysts are discussed in detail.
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Review on the criteria anticipated for the fabrication of highly efficient ZnO-based visible-light-driven photocatalysts

TL;DR: In this article, the main advancements in overcoming the barriers accompanied by pure ZnO and the criteria for fabrication of effective visible-light-responsive (ZnO-based) photocatalysts are reviewed.
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Removal of emerging contaminants from the environment by adsorption

TL;DR: Adsorption is a promising method worldwide for EC removal since it is low initial cost for implementation, highly-efficient and has simple operating design.
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Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode

TL;DR: Water photolysis is investigated by exploiting the fact that water is transparent to visible light and cannot be decomposed directly, but only by radiation with wavelengths shorter than 190 nm.
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A 2dvEv- bit distributed algorithm for the directed Euler trail problem

TL;DR: The algorithm can be used as a building block for solving other distributed graph problems, and can be slightly modified to run on a strongly-connected diagraph for generating the existent Euler trail or to report that no Euler trails exist.
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Visible-Light Photocatalysis in Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxides

TL;DR: Film and powders of TiO2-x Nx have revealed an improvement over titanium dioxide (TiO2) under visible light in optical absorption and photocatalytic activity such as photodegradations of methylene blue and gaseous acetaldehyde and hydrophilicity of the film surface.
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Titanium dioxide photocatalysis

TL;DR: A review of the current progress in the area of TiO 2 photocatalysis, mainly photocatalytic air purification, sterilization and cancer therapy is discussed in this paper.
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