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Decontamination and disinfection of water by solar photocatalysis: Recent overview and trends
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In this article, the authors reviewed the use of sunlight to produce the OH radicals by TiO2 photocatalysis and photo-Fenton process and summarized most of the research carried out related to solar photocatalytic degradation of water contaminants and how it could significantly contribute to the treatment of persistent toxic compounds.About:
This article is published in Catalysis Today.The article was published on 2009-09-15. It has received 2541 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Photocatalysis & Water treatment.read more
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Insights into real cotton-textile dyeing wastewater treatment using solar advanced oxidation processes
Petrick Anderson Soares,Tânia Silva,Diego Ricieri Manenti,Selene M.A. Guelli U. de Souza,Rui A.R. Boaventura,Vítor J.P. Vilar +5 more
TL;DR: Different advanced oxidation processes were applied to the treatment of a real cotton-textile dyeing wastewater as a pre-oxidation step to enhance the biodegradability of the recalcitrant compounds, which can be further oxidized using a biological process.
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Carbonaceous biomass-titania composites with TiOC bonding bridge for efficient photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) under narrow visible light
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed carbonaceous materials hybridized with anatase TiO2 composed of Activated Carbon-TiO2 (AC), Olive Pits (OP), Wood Shaving (WS) and WS-Ti O C bonds for the photocatalytic Cr(VI) reduction under UV and narrow visible light.
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Water Purification: Adsorption over Metal‐Organic Frameworks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically present the performances of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for water purification and give a detailed discussion about the connection among their performances, conducting condition factors and potential interaction mechanisms (e.g., electrostatic interactions, coordination or p-p interaction).
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Enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity in BiOCl/SnO2: heterojunction of two wide band-gap semiconductors
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of BiOCl/SnO2 heterojunctions exhibiting exceptional visible light photocatalytic performance have been successfully prepared using a two-step solution route.
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Nanoparticles Engineering by Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquids: Concepts and Applications
Enza Fazio,Bilal Gökce,Alessandro De Giacomo,Moreno Meneghetti,Giuseppe Compagnini,Matteo Tommasini,Friedrich Waag,Andrea Lucotti,Chiara Zanchi,Paolo Maria Ossi,Marcella Dell’Aglio,Luisa D'Urso,Marcello Condorelli,Vittorio Scardaci,Francesca Biscaglia,Lucio Litti,Marina Gobbo,Giovanni Gallo,Marco Santoro,Sebastiano Trusso,Fortunato Neri +20 more
TL;DR: Biomedicine, catalysis and sensing are the application areas mainly discussed in this review, highlighting advantages of laser-synthesized nanoparticles for these types of applications and, once partially resolved, the limitations to the technique for large-scale applications.
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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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Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades
Mark A. Shannon,Paul W. Bohn,Paul W. Bohn,Menachem Elimelech,Menachem Elimelech,John G. Georgiadis,Benito J. Mariñas,Anne M. Mayes,Anne M. Mayes +8 more
TL;DR: Some of the science and technology being developed to improve the disinfection and decontamination of water, as well as efforts to increase water supplies through the safe re-use of wastewater and efficient desalination of sea and brackish water are highlighted.
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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.
Titanium dioxide as photocatalysis
A Fujshima,T N Rao,D K Tryk +2 more
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 article.
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TiO2 photocatalysis and related surface phenomena
TL;DR: The field of photocatalysis can be traced back more than 80 years to early observations of the chalking of titania-based paints and to studies of the darkening of metal oxides in contact with organic compounds in sunlight as discussed by the authors.