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Photoinduced reactivity of titanium dioxide

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In this paper, photo-induced superhydrophilicity was used on the surface of a wide-band gap semiconductor like titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) for photocatalytic activity towards environmentally hazardous compounds.
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This article is published in Progress in Solid State Chemistry.The article was published on 2004-01-01. It has received 4241 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Superhydrophilicity & Photocatalysis.

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Low-temperature fabrication of brown TiO2 with enhanced photocatalytic activities under visible light

TL;DR: A facile one-step low-temperature solution-based method to treat native TiO2 with NaH, which effectively induces the Ti(iii) species and oxygen vacancies into theTiO2 host lattice, and enables the absorption edge of TiO 2 to be conveniently adjusted from the UV region to the red end of the visible spectrum.
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Ab-initio Electronic and Structural Properties of Rutile Titanium Dioxide

TL;DR: In this paper, self-consistent electronic energy bands of rutile TiO2 are reported within the local density functional approximation (LDA) potential and the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO).
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The application of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles in the photo-thermal therapy of melanoma cancer model.

TL;DR: The results of animal studies showed that PEGylated TiO2 NPs were exceptionally potent in destroying solid tumors in the PTT technique.
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Photoinduced superhydrophilicity and photocatalytic properties of ZnO nanoplatelets

TL;DR: In this article, photoinduced superhydrophilicity and photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) were investigated in quasi-2D zinc oxide nanoplatelets obtained by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD).
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Inorganic semiconductors-graphene composites in photo(electro)catalysis: Synthetic strategies, interaction mechanisms and applications

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the challenges involved in the synthetic strategies of GR-semiconductor photo(electro)catalysts in various applications including pollutant degradation, organic synthesis, hydrogen evolution and photoreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) and showed that photocatalytic activity of such composites depends not only on high GR electron mobility and charge transfer, but also on the properties of the interface.
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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 low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a photovoltaic cell, created from low-to medium-purity materials through low-cost processes, which exhibits a commercially realistic energy-conversion efficiency.
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Environmental Applications of Semiconductor Photocatalysis

TL;DR: The slow pace of hazardous waste remediation at military installations around the world is causing a serious delay in conversion of many of these facilities to civilian uses as discussed by the authors, which is a serious problem.
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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.

Atmospheric chemistry and physics: from air pollution to climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model for the chemistry of the Troposphere of the atmosphere and describe the properties of the Atmospheric Aqueous phase of single aerosol particles.
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