Nanostructured materials for photocatalysis

C Xu, PR Anusuyadevi, C Aymonier, R Luque… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalysis is a green technology which converts abundantly available photonic energy
into useful chemical energy. With a rapid rise of flow photoreactors in the last decade, the …

A review on ZnO: Fundamental properties and applications

DK Sharma, S Shukla, KK Sharma, V Kumar - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the semiconductor metal oxides, some semiconductor structures are identified for
their unique and vast potential applications in optoelectronic, field effect transistors, solar …

A review of ZnO nanoparticles as solar photocatalysts: Synthesis, mechanisms and applications

CB Ong, LY Ng, AW Mohammad - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are carbon-based chemical substances that are
resistant to environmental degradation and may not be completely removed through …

Photocatalytic oxygen evolution from water splitting

S Lin, H Huang, T Ma, Y Zhang - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalytic water splitting has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, and O2 evolution
is the decisive step owing to the complex four‐electrons reaction process. Though many …

Organic and inorganic nanomaterials: fabrication, properties and applications

BH Alshammari, MMA Lashin, MA Mahmood… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanomaterials and nanoparticles are a burgeoning field of research and a rapidly
expanding technology sector in a wide variety of application domains. Nanomaterials have …

Synthesis and applications of ZnO nanostructures (ZONSs): A review

MT Noman, N Amor, M Petru - Critical Reviews in Solid State and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Zinc oxide (ZnO) based nanostructures have gained remarkable attention worldwide for their
photocatalytic activation behavior as a semi-conductor metal oxide photocatalyst in different …

A review on bidirectional analogies between the photocatalysis and antibacterial properties of ZnO

J Liu, Y Wang, J Ma, Y Peng, A Wang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2019 - Elsevier
As a multi-functional biosafety material with outstanding anti-ultraviolet property, good
photocatalytic property as well as antibacterial activity, ZnO shows promising practical …

Surface modification of inorganic nanoparticles for development of organic–inorganic nanocomposites—A review

S Kango, S Kalia, A Celli, J Njuguna, Y Habibi… - Progress in polymer …, 2013 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles and nanocomposites are used in a wide range of applications in various
fields, such as medicine, textiles, cosmetics, agriculture, optics, food packaging …

Photocatalytic degradation of plastic waste: a mini review

QY Lee, H Li - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plastic waste becomes an immediate threat to our society with ever-increasing negative
impacts on our environment and health by entering our food chain. Sunlight is known to be …

Additive manufacturing of antibacterial PLA-ZnO nanocomposites: Benefits, limitations and open challenges

WJ Chong, S Shen, Y Li, A Trinchi, D Pejak… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymeric biomaterials such as polylactic acid (PLA) play a prominent role in the
advancement of biomedical additive manufacturing (AM). PLA offers indeed a very …