Recent developments of zinc oxide based photocatalyst in water treatment technology: a review

KM Lee, CW Lai, KS Ngai, JC Juan - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Today, a major issue about water pollution is the residual dyes from different sources (eg,
textile industries, paper and pulp industries, dye and dye intermediates industries …

Inorganic-modified semiconductor TiO 2 nanotube arrays for photocatalysis

M Wang, J Ioccozia, L Sun, C Lin, Z Lin - Energy & Environmental …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconductor photocatalysis is a promising physicochemical process for the
photodegradation of organic contaminants and bacterial detoxification. Among various oxide …

Synthesis and characterization of Sr-doped ZnO nanoparticles for photocatalytic applications

M Yarahmadi, H Maleki-Ghaleh, ME Mehr… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of semiconductors that respond to the visible light as a photocatalyst is an effective
way to remove pollution resulting from the chemical industries. In this project, with the aim of …

Fundamental principles and application of heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of dyes in solution

MA Rauf, SS Ashraf - Chemical engineering journal, 2009 - Elsevier
Synthetic dyes are a major part of our life as they are found in the various products ranging
from clothes to leather accessories to furniture. An unfortunate side effect of their widespread …

Green synthesis of copper nanoparticles from an extract of Jatropha curcas leaves: Characterization, optical properties, CT-DNA binding and photocatalytic activity

MK Ghosh, S Sahu, I Gupta, TK Ghorai - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The green synthesis of copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) using a leaf extract from Jatropha
curcas (JC) has been documented in our present research work. The existence of …

Current in vitro methods in nanoparticle risk assessment: limitations and challenges

A Kroll, MH Pillukat, D Hahn… - European journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles are an emerging class of functional materials defined by size-dependent
properties. Application fields range from medical imaging, new drug delivery technologies to …

Polymer nanocomposites for photocatalytic applications

V Melinte, L Stroea, AL Chibac-Scutaru - Catalysts, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the present comprehensive review we have specifically focused on polymer
nanocomposites used as photocatalytic materials in fine organic reactions or in organic …

Adsorption of remazol brilliant violet-5R textile dye from aqueous solutions by using eggshell waste biosorbent

E Rápó, LE Aradi, Á Szabó, K Posta, R Szép, S Tonk - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Based on the well-known excellent adsorbent ability of chicken eggshells, the adsorptive
capacity and mechanism of Remazol Brilliant Violet-5R (RBV-5R) dye by eggshell was …

Promising photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange dye via sol-gel synthesized Ag–CdS@ Pr-TiO2 core/shell nanoparticles

A Singh, A Ahmed, A Sharma, C Sharma, S Paul… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, we prepared core–shell structured Ag–CdS@ Pr-TiO 2 nanoparticles and
investigated its photocatalytic activity for determining the irradiation against degradation of …

A review on the fabrication of hierarchical ZnO nanostructures for photocatalysis application

Y Xia, J Wang, R Chen, D Zhou, L Xiang - Crystals, 2016 - mdpi.com
Semiconductor photocatalysis provides potential solutions for many energy and
environmental-related issues. Recently, various semiconductors with hierarchical …