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A survey of photocatalytic materials for environmental remediation
Elisa I. García-lópezLeonardo PalmisanoAgatino Di PaolaGiuseppe Marcìsubject
Environmental EngineeringMaterials scienceUltraviolet RaysEnvironmental remediationHealth Toxicology and MutagenesisPortable water purificationNanotechnologyCatalysisEnvironmental ChemistryGraphiteWaste Management and DisposalEnvironmental Restoration and RemediationTitaniumNanotubes CarbonAdvanced oxidation processOxidesMineralization (soil science)Photochemical ProcessesPollutionNanostructuresCharacterization (materials science)Environmental chemistryHeterogeneous photocatalysis photocatalysts not based on TiO2PhotocatalysisEnvironmental PollutantsWater treatmentSettore CHIM/07 - Fondamenti Chimici Delle Tecnologiedescription
Abstract Heterogeneous photocatalysis is an advanced oxidation process which has been the subject of a huge amount of studies related to air cleaning and water purification. All these processes have been carried out mainly by using TiO 2 -based materials as the photocatalysts and ca. 75% of the articles published in the last 3 years is related to them. This review illustrates the efforts in the search of alternative photocatalysts that are not based on TiO 2 , with some exceptions concerning particularly innovative modifications as nanoassembled TiO 2 or TiO 2 composites with active carbon, graphite and fullerene. Papers reporting preparation, characterization and testing of binary, ternary and quaternary compounds, have been reviewed. Despite many of these photocatalysts being effective for the photodecomposition of many pollutants, most of them do not allow a complete mineralization of the starting compounds, differently from TiO 2 .
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-04-01 |