New insights into the degradation of synthetic pollutants in contaminated environments

P Bhatt, S Gangola, G Bhandari, W Zhang, D Maithani… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The environment is contaminated by synthetic contaminants owing to their extensive
applications globally. Hence, the removal of synthetic pollutants (SPs) from the environment …

An overview of TiO2-based photocatalytic membrane reactors for water and wastewater treatments

S Riaz, SJ Park - Journal of industrial and engineering chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic membrane reactors (PMRs), which coupled photocatalysts (PCs) with the
membrane separation process has gained huge interest for the purification of water and …

Photo-/thermal synergies in heterogeneous catalysis: Towards low-temperature (solar-driven) processing for sustainable energy and chemicals

N Keller, J Ivanez, J Highfield, AM Ruppert - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is growing recognition that cooperative effects exist under dual-mode (photo-thermal)
heterogeneous catalytic excitation that offer genuine prospects in the transition to a …

Review on the use of heavy metal deposits from water treatment waste towards catalytic chemical syntheses

TK Das, A Poater - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The toxicity and persistence of heavy metals has become a serious problem for humans.
These heavy metals accumulate mainly in wastewater from various industries' discharged …

Semiconductor photocatalysis for chemoselective radical coupling reactions

H Kisch - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Photocatalysis at semiconductor surfaces is a growing field of general
photocatalysis because of its importance for the chemical utilization of solar energy. By …

Photocatalytic gas phase reactions

M Schreck, M Niederberger - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
Photocatalytic gas phase reactions represent a less explored yet promising direction within
the highly active research area of photocatalysis. While photocatalytic liquid phase reactions …

Photocatalytic and Adsorption Performances of Faceted Cuprous Oxide (Cu2O) Particles for the Removal of Methyl Orange (MO) from Aqueous Media

WCJ Ho, Q Tay, H Qi, Z Huang, J Li, Z Chen - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Particles of sub-micron size possess significant capacity to adsorb organic molecules from
aqueous media. Semiconductor photocatalysts in particle form could potentially be utilized …

Janus nanostructures for heterogeneous photocatalysis

A Chauhan, M Rastogi, P Scheier, C Bowen… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
When Fujishima and Honda discovered the photoassisted water splitting properties of titania
anodes in 1972, it marked the beginning of a new era in the field of photocatalysis. 1 This …

Recent advances and challenges of anodes for aqueous alkaline batteries

L Zhou, J Xie, D Xu, Y Yu, X Gao, X Lu - EnergyChem, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing surge in demand for energy conversion and storage spurs the development of
high-efficiency batteries. In recent decades, aqueous alkaline batteries (AABs) have been …

Recent advance in nanostructured materials innovation towards photocatalytic CO2 reduction

JK Muiruri, E Ye, Q Zhu, XJ Loh, Z Li - Applied Catalysis A: General, 2022 - Elsevier
Biomimicking natural processes such as plant photosynthesis require in-depth
understanding of molecular building blocks enabling these reactions. As such, artificial …