A review and recent developments on strategies to improve the photocatalytic elimination of organic dye pollutants by BiOX (X= Cl, Br, I, F) nanostructures

S Singh, R Sharma, M Khanuja - Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2018 - Springer
The main environmental problems associated with water body pollution are typically those
caused by the discharge of untreated effluents released by various industries. Wastewater …

Recent advances in structure design for enhancing photocatalysis

X He, C Zhang - Journal of Materials Science, 2019 - Springer
Semiconductor photocatalysis has attracted considerable attention because it is a promising
way to deal with the global energy scarcity and environmental degradation. Over the past …

Novel tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanosheets for photocatalytic degradation and electrochemical detection of pharmaceutical pollutants

T Fatima, S Husain, J Narang, M Khanuja… - Journal of Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present work, a new strategy of “Freeing two birds with one key” was implemented for
the photocatalytic degradation and electrochemical sensing of antibiotic nitrofurantoin (NFT) …

BiOCl/WS 2 hybrid nanosheet (2D/2D) heterojunctions for visible-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of organic/inorganic water pollutants

W Ashraf, S Bansal, V Singh, S Barman, M Khanuja - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This report presents the superior visible-light-driven photocatalytic response of novel 2D/2D
BiOCl/WS2 (BWX) hybrid nanosheet heterojunctions prepared by a simple solution based …

Superior photocatalytic activity of tungsten disulfide nanostructures: role of morphology and defects

W Ashraf, T Fatima, K Srivastava, M Khanuja - Applied Nanoscience, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Tungsten disulphide (WS 2) nanostructures, WS 2 nanosheets (W NS) and WS 2
nanorods (W NR), were synthesized by varying the surfactant, N-cetyl-N, N, N-trimethyl …

Effect of aspect ratio on photocatalytic performance of hexagonal ZnO nanorods

A Das, RG Nair - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanostructured zinc oxides (ZnO) are fascinating materials due to their distinct
morphological properties. Current work offered controlled growth of hexagonal ZnO …

Inorganic–organic nanohybrid of MoS2-PANI for advanced photocatalytic application

S Saha, N Chaudhary, H Mittal, G Gupta… - International Nano …, 2019 - Springer
In this work, the fabrication of MoS 2-Polyaniline (PANI) nanocomposites, by in situ
polymerization, has been described and its application as a photocatalyst for the …

Optimization of MoSe2 nanostructure by surface modification using conducting polymer for degradation of cationic and anionic dye: Photocatalysis mechanism …

H Mittal, M Khanuja - Dyes and Pigments, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, optimum nanocomposites of MoSe 2-PANI (polyaniline) were
successfully synthesized by modifying the surface of MoSe 2 with PANI to enhance the …

[HTML][HTML] Formation of a ZnO nanorods-patterned coating with strong bactericidal capability and quantitative evaluation of the contribution of nanorods-derived puncture …

J Ye, B Li, M Li, Y Zheng, S Wu, Y Han - Bioactive Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
To endow Ti-based orthopedic implants with strong bactericidal activity, a ZnO nanorods-
patterned coating (namely ZNR) was fabricated on Ti utilizing a catalyst-and template-free …

A facile synthesis of ternary hybrid nanocomposite of WS2/ZnO/PPy: An efficient photocatalyst for the degradation of chromium hexavalent

N Tyagi, W Ashraf, H Mittal, T Fatima, M Khanuja… - Dyes and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study novel and promising ternary hybrid nanocomposite of tungsten disulphide (WS
2), zinc oxide (ZnO) and polypyrrole (PPy) has been synthesized for the efficacious …