A review of visible light-active photocatalysts for water disinfection: Features and prospects

J You, Y Guo, R Guo, X Liu - Chemical engineering journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis has emerged as a valuable approach for microbial disinfection. The
development of visible light-active (VLA) photocatalysts to tackle water contamination is …

Antimicrobial activity of photocatalysts: fundamentals, mechanisms, kinetics and recent advances

P Ganguly, C Byrne, A Breen, SC Pillai - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Photocatalysis has recently been emerged as an effective green solution for antimicrobial
disinfection applications. Photocatalytic disinfection has been observed to be efficient in …

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles in food and personal care products—What do we know about their safety?

J Musial, R Krakowiak, DT Mlynarczyk, T Goslinski… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a material of diverse applications commonly used as a food
additive or cosmetic ingredient. Its prevalence in products of everyday use, especially in …

Ultrasonic-microwave synthesis of ZnO/BiOBr functionalized cotton fabrics with antibacterial and photocatalytic properties

H Yang, Q Zhang, Y Chen, Y Huang, F Yang… - Carbohydrate polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
ZnO coated fabrics have attracted wide attentions due to their antibacterial and
photocatalytic self-cleaning properties. However, the photo-response of ZnO only in …

Medical and dental applications of titania nanoparticles: an overview

A Mansoor, Z Khurshid, MT Khan, E Mansoor, FA Butt… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Currently, titanium oxide (TiO2) nanoparticles are successfully employed in human food,
drugs, cosmetics, advanced medicine, and dentistry because of their non-cytotoxic, non …

Ag, Au and Pt decorated TiO2 biocompatible nanospheres for UV & vis photocatalytic water treatment

M Scarisoreanu, AG Ilie, E Goncearenco… - Applied Surface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spherical noble metal-titanium dioxide nanoparticles (Pt/TiO 2, Au/TiO 2 and Ag/TiO 2) were
synthesized using laser pyrolysis (LP) followed by wet impregnation and reduction methods …

Designing cotton fibers impregnated with photocatalytic graphene oxide/Fe, N-doped TiO2 particles as prospective industrial self-cleaning and biocompatible textiles

MS Stan, MA Badea, GG Pircalabioru… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Our study reports the fabrication and characterization (surface morphology, hydrophobicity/
hydrophilicity, photocatalytic efficiency) of cotton fibers treated by various methods with …

Fabrication of biomaterial/TiO2 composite photocatalysts for the selective removal of trace environmental pollutants

Y Zhao, Y Wang, G Xiao, H Su - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Trace environmental pollutants have become a serious problem with special attention on the
hazardous heavy metals, refractory organics, and pathogenic microorganisms. With …

Green aspects of photocatalysts during corona pandemic: a promising role for the deactivation of COVID-19 virus

A Kumar, V Soni, P Singh, AAP Khan, M Nazim… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The selection of a facile, eco-friendly, and effective methodology is the need of the hour for
efficient curing of the COVID-19 virus in air, water, and many food products. Recently …

Photocatalytic activity of wool fabrics deposited at low temperature with ZnO or TiO2 nanoparticles: Methylene blue degradation as a test reaction

L Frunza, L Diamandescu, I Zgura, S Frunza… - Catalysis Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Different amounts of TiO 2 and ZnO particles were deposited upon wool fabrics, which are
among the less studied textiles. The materials were get from industry or were home made …