Nanoremediation technologies for sustainable remediation of contaminated environments: Recent advances and challenges

AS Ganie, S Bano, N Khan, S Sultana, Z Rehman… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
A major and growing concern within society is the lack of innovative and effective solutions
to mitigate the challenge of environmental pollution. Uncontrolled release of pollutants into …

[HTML][HTML] Green derived metal sulphides as photocatalysts for waste water treatment. A review

S Munyai, NC Hintsho-Mbita - Current Research in Green and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
The wastewater discharged from the textile industry consists of a large amount of colored
materials referred to as dyes. The management of these dyes is very poor and they have an …

Fabrication of g-C3N4/BiOBr heterojunctions on carbon fibers as weaveable photocatalyst for degrading tetracycline hydrochloride under visible light

Z Shi, Y Zhang, X Shen, G Duoerkun, B Zhu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
The photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline (TC) in water has received much attention, but
its practical application in the river has been limited by a lack of efficient and recyclable …

[HTML][HTML] Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue over TiO2 Pretreated with Varying Concentrations of NaOH

C Hou, B Hu, J Zhu - Catalysts, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, different NaOH concentrations (2, 5, 10, and 15 M) were used to treat {001}
TiO2. The effect of NaOH on the crystal structure, morphology, optical properties, light raw …

An investigation of transition metal doped TiO2 photocatalysts for the enhanced photocatalytic decoloration of methylene blue dye under visible light irradiation

P Karuppasamy, NRN Nisha, A Pugazhendhi… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic decolouration of dyes/pollutants using semiconducting materials has grabbed
great attention in recent days. The current study focuses on a sol-gel method for preparing …

Ag-catalyzed strain engineering in ZnO for tailoring defects towards bacterial inactivation and removal of organic dyes for environmental sustainability

V Kumar, D Kumar, V Singh, N Kaushik… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explored Ag-guided strain formation in ZnO that can manipulate defects in related
properties, which are helpful in enhancing the photocatalytic performance of ZnO. Ag@ ZnO …

Rietveld refinement, morphological, optical and photocatalytic dye degradation studies of pristine and Sr-doped SnS2 hexagonal nanoplates

A Sharma, A Makhija, S Dahiya, A Ohlan… - Materials Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present study, Sr x Sn 1-x S 2 hexagonal nanoplates have been synthesized via a cost-
effective hydrothermal route and characterized by XRD, UV-DRS, PL, SEM, EDXS, Zeta …

Effect of induced defects on the properties of ZnO nanocrystals: surfactant role and spectroscopic analysis

DD Thongam, J Gupta, NK Sahu - SN Applied Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Semiconductor photocatalysts are one of the major sought area of research due to their
extensive use in the degradation of organic pollutants under UV–visible and solar light …

Solvothermal synthesis of activated carbon loaded CdS nanoflowers: Boosted photodegradation of dye by adsorption and photocatalysis synergy

KS Bhavsar, PK Labhane, RB Dhake… - Chemical Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Herein, we prepared AC (activated carbon) loaded CdS nanoflowers for the removal of
stable dye. Morphological, crystallographic, thermal and optical properties of activated …

Core/shell PDA@ UiO-66 metal–organic framework nanoparticles for efficient visible-light photodegradation of organic dyes

N Celebi, MY Aydin, F Soysal, N Yıldız… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In this study, bio-inspired polydopamine nanoparticles (PDA NPs) were utilized as a starting
template to fabricate a well-defined zirconium-based MOF (UiO-66, PDA@ MOF) core/shell …