Despite metal oxides offer excellent characteristics in the field of photocatalysis, they often
suffer from charge carrier recombination as well as limited visible response, which indeed …

Self-cleaning materials have gained considerable attention for both their unique properties
and practical applications in energy and environmental areas. Recent examples of many …

Dry reforming of methane is one of the key reactions to exploit natural gas feedstocks by
their catalytic conversion to synthesis gas (CH4+ CO2→ 2H2+ 2CO), which is used in the …

The advantages of membrane technology over conventional separation methods are high
removal capacity, flexibility of operation and cost effectiveness. However, the main limitation …

A systematic and complete antibacterial study on well-designed and well-characterized
microparticle (micro), nanoparticle (nano), and capped nano ZnO has been carried out in …

Nanoscale metal oxide materials have been attracting much attention because of their
unique size-and dimensionality-dependent physical and chemical properties as well as …

One of the challenging issues in photocatalytic overall water splitting is to efficiently separate
the photogenerated charges and the reduction and oxidation catalytic sites on …

Recently, defect architectured photocatalysis is proved to be the most versatile choice for
high solar to chemical energy conversion processes. Defect engineering strategies are of …

ZnO nanoparticles doped with different Eu 3+ percentages were synthesized in water (ZnO:
Eu (x%)-W) and other solvents (methanol ZnO: Eu (x%)-M and ethanol ZnO: Eu (x%)-E). X …

Photocatalysis is considered as one of the most promising advanced oxidation processes
due to its ability to completely degrade contaminants to safer end product or intermediate …