Photocatalytic degradation of ciprofloxacin using Zn-doped Cu2O particles: Analysis of degradation pathways and intermediates

Passivating Surface States on Water Splitting Cuprous Oxide Photocatalyst with Bismuth Decoration

“…Cuprous oxide (Cu 2 O) is a promising candidate as a native p-type oxide semiconductor with a direct band gap of 2.17 eV in the field of gas sensors [1,2,3], solar energy conversion [4,5,6,7] and photocatalysis [8,9,10,11]. Cu 2 O is characterized by low toxicity, environmental acceptability, and low-cost elemental compositions because they are very abundant in the crust, which makes it promising for achieving large-scale industrial production to solve environmental and energy problems [10,12,13,14].…”

Facile fabrication of highly flexible and floatable Cu2O/rGO on Vietnamese traditional paper toward high-performance solar-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of ciprofloxacin antibiotic

“…Moreover, eight intermediates have been detected in the photocatalytic degradation of CIP. 37 Many previous works have also reported on the high photocatalytic performance of the Cu 2 O/rGO catalyst owing to the synergistic effect of the Cu 2 O nanoparticles and rGO sheets. 10,12,15,16,18,38,39 The possible mechanism of the photodegradation of CIP in this work is proposed as in Fig.…”

In-situ synthesis of Cu2O on cotton fibers with antibacterial properties and reusable photocatalytic degradation of dyes

“…These advantages make Cu 2 O industrial applications more preferred than similar photocatalysts such as TiO 2 [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] . Yu et al [25] used solvothermal method to prepare Zn-doped Cu 2 O nanoparticles with various crystal structures, and explored the effect of Zn doping on the structure and properties of Cu 2 O. Their samples used for photocatalytic degradation of ciprofloxacin, and the highest degradation rate reached 94.6%.…”