Recent progress in metal-doped TiO2, non-metal doped/codoped TiO2 and TiO2 nanostructured hybrids for enhanced photocatalysis

PS Basavarajappa, SB Patil, N Ganganagappa… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Titanium dioxide remains a benchmark photocatalyst with high stability, low cost, and less
toxicity, but it is active only under UV light; thus, in practical applications using visible light …

A review of photocatalytic characterization, and environmental cleaning, of metal oxide nanostructured materials

M Ikram, M Rashid, A Haider, S Naz, J Haider… - Sustainable Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Industrial waste is the primary source of highly toxic organic pollutants and heavy metal
contaminants. Treatment of such effluence is necessary to mitigate environmental pollution …

Functionalizing Ti3C2Tx for enhancing fire resistance and reducing toxic gases of flexible polyurethane foam composites with reinforced mechanical properties

Z Yin, J Lu, N Hong, W Cheng, P Jia, H Wang… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Flexible polyurethane foam (FPUF) is the most used polyurethane, but the highly flammable
characteristic limits its widespread usage. In this work, ZIF-8@ Ti 3 C 2 T x was synthesized …

[HTML][HTML] Metal oxides as photocatalysts

MM Khan, SF Adil, A Al-Mayouf - Journal of Saudi chemical society, 2015 - Elsevier
Metal oxides are of great technological importance in environmental remediation and
electronics because of their capability to generate charge carriers when stimulated with …

Band gap engineered TiO 2 nanoparticles for visible light induced photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic studies

MM Khan, SA Ansari, D Pradhan, MO Ansari… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Visible light-active TiO2 (m-TiO2) nanoparticles were obtained by an electron beam
treatment of commercial TiO2 (p-TiO2) nanoparticles. The m-TiO2 nanoparticles exhibited a …

Effective role of Rb do** in controlling the crystallization, crystal imperfections, and microstructural and morphological features of ZnO-NPs synthesized by the sol …

A Sa'aedi, AA Akl, AS Hassanien - CrystEngComm, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This article is dedicated to synthesizing pure ZnO and Rb-doped ZnO nanoparticles,
RbxZn1− xO-NPs (x= 0.0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06 mol), using sol–gel technology. Synthesized …

Oxygen vacancy induced band gap narrowing of ZnO nanostructures by an electrochemically active biofilm

SA Ansari, MM Khan, S Kalathil, A Nisar, J Lee… - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Band gap narrowing is important and advantageous for potential visible light photocatalytic
applications involving metal oxide nanostructures. This paper reports a simple biogenic …

Nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide (N-doped TiO 2) for visible light photocatalysis

SA Ansari, MM Khan, MO Ansari, MH Cho - New Journal of Chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
TiO2 is an effective and well-known photocatalyst for water and air purification, but its
practical applications in visible light-assisted chemical reactions are hindered mainly by its …

Biogenic synthesis, photocatalytic, and photoelectrochemical performance of Ag–ZnO nanocomposite

SA Ansari, MM Khan, MO Ansari, J Lee… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The development of coupled photoactive materials (metal/semiconductor) has resulted in
significant advancements in heterogeneous visible light photocatalysis. This work reports …

Defect-Induced Band Gap Narrowed CeO2 Nanostructures for Visible Light Activities

MM Khan, SA Ansari, D Pradhan, DH Han… - Industrial & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
This work reports an electron beam irradiation (30 kGy and 90 kGy) approach to narrow the
band gap of the pristine CeO2 nanostructure (p-CeO2) to enhance their visible light activity …