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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.
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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.

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Enhanced activity and reusability of TiO2 loaded magnetic activated carbon for solar photocatalytic ozonation

TL;DR: In this article, magnetically separable photocatalysts with high activity under solar illumination were successfully synthesized from a commercial meso-to-microporous activated carbon by impregnation and sol-gel methods.
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Band gap engineered, oxygen-rich TiO2 for visible light induced photocatalytic reduction of CO2

TL;DR: A facile and dopant-free strategy was employed to fabricate oxygen-rich TiO2 (O2-TiO2) with enhanced visible light photoactivity that exhibited high photoactivity towards CO2 reduction under visible light.
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Direct Light-Driven Water Oxidation by a Ladder-Type Conjugated Polymer Photoanode

TL;DR: A conjugated polymer known for high stability (poly[benzimidazobenzophenanthroline], coded as BBL) is examined as a photoanode for direct solar water oxidation and reveals a constant flat-band potential over a wide pH range at +0.31 VNHE.
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Ambient light antimicrobial activity of reduced graphene oxide supported metal doped TiO2 nanoparticles and their PVA based polymer nanocomposite films

TL;DR: In this paper, copper doped TiO 2 nanoparticles with reduced graphene oxide as a solid support were introduced as new ambient light antimicrobial agents, which increased the activity to the visible light and enhanced charge transport during photocatalytic degradation of microorganisms.
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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

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

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.
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