Critical review on hazardous pollutants in water environment: Occurrence, monitoring, fate, removal technologies and risk assessment

BS Rathi, PS Kumar, DVN Vo - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Water is required for the existence of all living things. Water pollution has grown significantly,
over the decades and now it has developed as a serious worldwide problem. The presence …

A short review on heterojunction photocatalysts: Carrier transfer behavior and photocatalytic mechanisms

H Yang - Materials Research Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Construction of heterojunctions by coupling two semiconductors together is one of the most
efficient ways to realize the electron-hole pair separation. In this short paper, I systematically …

Photocatalytic NO removal over defective Bi/BiOBr nanoflowers: The inhibition of toxic NO2 intermediate via high humidity

Y Xin, Q Zhu, T Gao, X Li, W Zhang, H Wang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water vapor (relative humidity) is an ineluctable factor for photocatalytic removal of low-
concentration NO in practical environment. In this work, defective Bi/BiOBr nanoflowers were …

Visible-light-driven removal of atrazine by durable hollow core-shell TiO2@ LaFeO3 heterojunction coupling with peroxymonosulfate via enhanced electron-transfer

K Wei, A Armutlulu, Y Wang, G Yao, R Xie… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Insufficient charge-carriers separation and deteriorated recycling are still bottlenecks limiting
practical photocatalytic water purification. Herein, we developed a durable hollow core-shell …

Perovskite-type lanthanum ferrite based photocatalysts: Preparation, properties, and applications

M Humayun, H Ullah, M Usman… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clean energy and a sustainable environment are grand challenges that the world is facing
which can be addressed by converting solar energy into transportable and storable fuels …

Hierarchical defect-rich flower-like BiOBr/Ag nanoparticles/ultrathin g-C3N4 with transfer channels plasmonic Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst for accelerated …

J Ni, D Liu, W Wang, A Wang, J Jia, J Tian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
For degradation of high-toxic oxytetracycline, defect-rich flower-like BiOBr is prepared and
then is combined with both Ag nanoparticles and ultrathin gC 3 N 4 to construct a plasmonic …

Application of perovskite oxides and their composites for degrading organic pollutants from wastewater using advanced oxidation processes: Review of the recent …

F Mahmoudi, K Saravanakumar, V Maheskumar… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the recent years, perovskite oxides are gaining an increasing amount of attention owing to
their unique traits such as tunable electronic structures, flexible composition, and eco …

Construction of multifunctional dual Z-scheme composites with enhanced photocatalytic activities for degradation of ciprofloxacin

Z He, H Yang, J Su, Y Xia, X Fu, L Wang, L Kang - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Visible-light-driven (VLD) photocatalysis has aroused extensive attention due to
their great potential in applications concerning energy crisis and environmental pollution …

Photocatalytic solar fuel production and environmental remediation through experimental and DFT based research on CdSe-QDs-coupled P-doped-g-C3N4 …

F Raziq, A Hayat, M Humayun, SKB Mane… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar energy harvesting and conversion into useful chemical energy with the aid of
semiconductor photocatalysts is a promising technique to solve both energy and …

Bismuth oxyhalide photocatalysts for water purification: Progress and challenges

CY Wang, X Zhang, HQ Yu - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in water and wastewater has gained
considerable attention in recent decades, as bismuth oxyhalides (BiOX, X= Cl, Br, or I) have …