Synthesis and application of titanium dioxide photocatalysis for energy, decontamination and viral disinfection: A review

J Arun, S Nachiappan, G Rangarajan… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Global pollution is calling for advanced methods to remove contaminants from water and
wastewater, such as TiO2-assisted photocatalysis. The environmental applications of …

Nano-modified titanium implant materials: a way toward improved antibacterial properties

J Liu, J Liu, S Attarilar, C Wang… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Titanium and its alloys have superb biocompatibility, low elastic modulus, and favorable
corrosion resistance. These exceptional properties lead to its wide use as a medical implant …

Photocatalytic Degradation of Psychiatric Pharmaceuticals in Hospital WWTP Secondary Effluents Using gC3N4 and gC3N4/MoS2 Catalysts in Laboratory-Scale …

I Rapti, V Boti, T Albanis, I Konstantinou - Catalysts, 2023 - mdpi.com
Today, the pollution caused by a multitude of pharmaceuticals used by humans has been
recognized as a major environmental problem. The objective of this study was to evaluate …

CuO nanoparticles decorated on hydroxyapatite/ferrite magnetic support: photocatalysis, cytotoxicity, and antimicrobial response

EC Paris, JOD Malafatti, AJ Moreira, LC Santos… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Photocatalysts supported in magnetic nanocomposites for application in environmental
remediation processes have been evaluated for removing contaminants due to easy …

Photocatalytic removal of the antidepressant fluoxetine from aqueous media using TiO2 P25 and g-C3N4 catalysts

D Fotiou, C Lykos, I Konstantinou - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the present work, photocatalysis using TiO 2 P25 and gC 3 N 4 was utilized to remove the
commonly detected antidepressant fluoxetine (FLX) from aquatic media. Experiments were …

TiO2 based nanomaterial: Synthesis, structure, photocatalytic properties, and removal of dyes from wastewater

S Kumar, A Chanana - Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Owing to its complex chemical makeup, dye pollution from the textile sector poses a serious
challenge for wastewater. Using a photocatalyst with light irradiation to remove color from …

Considerations about the determination of optical bandgap from diffuse reflectance spectroscopy using the Tauc plot

PR Jubu, OS Obaseki, DI Ajayi, E Danladi… - Journal of Optics, 2024 - Springer
The optical diffuse reflectance data of a semiconductor material is usually converted into the
Kubelka–Munk function before proceeding to process the conventional Tauc's plot from …

Hierarchical structure of 3D ZnO experimentally designed to achieve high performance in the sertraline photocatalysis in natural waters

TEM Silva, AJ Moreira, ETD Nobrega… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hierarchical nanostructures of 3D ZnO are considered great potential materials for many
technological applications. In this study, we employed a chemometric approach to …

Anatase-rutile-brookite: Structural and photocatalytic properties of TiO2 modified with different boron concentrations

AJ Moreira, KC de Araújo, GN Marques… - Materials Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study prepared titanium dioxide nanostructures modified with different boron (B-
modified TiO 2) concentrations. The percentage of the anatase was> 98% and the rutile …

Prozac® removal promoted by HAP: Nb2O5 nanoparticles system: by‐products, mechanism, and cytotoxicity assessment

JOD Malafatti, AJ Moreira, CR Sciena, TEM Silva… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The elucidation of photocatalysis and adsorption mechanisms in the pollutant removal, as
well as the efficiency for each process, provide key information for polluted water …