A review of photocatalytic characterization, and environmental cleaning, of metal oxide nanostructured materials

M Ikram, M Rashid, A Haider, S Naz, J Haider… - Sustainable Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Industrial waste is the primary source of highly toxic organic pollutants and heavy metal
contaminants. Treatment of such effluence is necessary to mitigate environmental pollution …

Recent developments in multifunctional coatings for solar panel applications: A review

MS Mozumder, AHI Mourad, H Pervez… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Conventional resources of energy production by burning fossil fuels are detrimental to the
earth's atmosphere leading to serious problems such as global warming and acid rain. As a …

Photocatalytic and surface properties of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in soil solutions

K Solymos, I Babcsányi, B Ariya, T Gyulavári… - Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanotechnology has emerged as a rapidly growing scientific field with diverse applications.
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles are among the most commonly used nanoparticles due to …

Ambient temperature ZrO2-doped TiO2 crystalline photocatalysts: Highly efficient powders and films for water depollution

JG Mahy, SD Lambert, RG Tilkin, C Wolfs… - Materials Today …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, several TiO 2 materials doped with zirconia precursor (0.7, 1.4, 1.6 and 2.0
mol%) were synthesized by an easy aqueous sol-gel synthesis at ambient temperature. This …

Natural Clay Modified with ZnO/TiO2 to Enhance Pollutant Removal from Water

JG Mahy, MH Tsaffo Mbognou, C Léonard, N Fagel… - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
Raw clays, extracted from Bana, west Cameroon, were modified with semiconductors (TiO2
and ZnO) in order to improve their depollution properties with the addition of photocatalytic …

Crystalline ZnO Photocatalysts Prepared at Ambient Temperature: Influence of Morphology on p-Nitrophenol Degradation in Water

JG Mahy, L Lejeune, T Haynes, N Body, S De Kreijger… - Catalysts, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since the Industrial Revolution, technological advances have generated enormous
emissions of various pollutants affecting all ecosystems. The detection and degradation of …

Core-shell nanowire arrays based on ZnO and CuxO for water stable photocatalysts

C Florica, A Costas, N Preda, M Beregoi, A Kuncser… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Staggered gap radial heterojunctions based on ZnO-CuxO core-shell nanowires are used
as water stable photocatalysts to harvest solar energy for pollutants removal. ZnO nanowires …

Porphyrin-based hybrid silica-titania as a visible-light photocatalyst

JG Mahy, CA Paez, C Carcel, C Bied, AS Tatton… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A silylated porphyrin derivative is co-hydrolyzed with Ti (OiPr) 4 to produce a hybrid TiO 2
photocatalyst, and three different ratios between porphyrin and TiO 2 are made. In this way …

Advanced photocatalytic oxidation processes for micropollutant elimination from municipal and industrial water

JG Mahy, C Wolfs, A Mertes, C Vreuls, S Drot… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to develop and validate an innovative technology to ensure
efficient elimination of different types of micropollutants and toxic compounds in waste water …

Tailoring superhydrophilicity and photocatalysis of sputter deposited TiO2/WO3 thin films on super white glass by process and chemical composition optimization

SK Chiu, WC Li, W Lee, TH Su, GS Chen - Vacuum, 2022 - Elsevier
Super white cover glass with durable self-cleaning ability is critical for solar panels to
function properly. In this regard, an ultrahigh vacuum coater was used to deposit TiO 2/WO 3 …