Solar photocatalytic degradation of resorcinol a model endocrine disrupter in water using zinc oxide

Photocatalytic Degradation of Diethyl Phthalate (DEP) in Water Using TiO2

“…1). When the concentration of DEP increases, the photons could be interrupted before they can reach the photocatalyst surface; hence, absorption of photons by the photocatalyst decreases, and consequently, the degradation efficiency decreases (Pardeshia and Patil 2009). It is suggested that the optimal DEP concentration for the photocatalytic degradation in the experiment is 10 mg/L, and the photocatalytic degradation reached to 95.5% in this condition.…”

Preparation, characterization and photocatalytic properties of ZnTiO3 powders

“…The solar catalytic activity of oxides has attracted widespread attention owing to several reasons such as limitless solar light energy and recycled photocatalytic oxides. Among these semiconductor oxides, TiO 2 [1][2][3][4][8][9][10][11] and ZnO [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], which have been used to degradate the dye, can absorb the solar incident light energy and show high photocatalytic activity. However, TiO 2 can only take in a small portion of solar spectra in the UV region [12] and has high recombination rate of the photo-induced electron-hole pairs at or near its surface [13].…”

NH3-assisted synthesis of PbS nanostructures: a novel hydrothermal method, structural and photocatalytic studies

“…Hydroxyl radicals are known to be most important intermediates during the photocatalytic degradation process of organic compounds. They can react with dyes and result in degradation products [35][36][37]. Therefore, so can be seen in Fig.…”