Photocatalysis, as a low-cost and environment friendly technology, has demonstrated a
significant potential for water pollution purification; it has received extensive attention in …

Chitin (β-(1-4)-poly-N-acetyl-d-glucosamine) is widely distributed in nature and is the
second most abundant polysaccharide after cellulose. It is often converted to its more …

Wound dressing is one of the most promising medical applications for chitin and chitosan.
The adhesive nature of chitin and chitosan, together with their antifungal and bactericidal …

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 …

The photocatalytic activity of commercial ZnO powder has been investigated and compared
with that of Degussa P25 TiO2. Laboratory experiments with acid brown 14 as the model …

Iron doped wurtzite ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized and characterized by X-ray
diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, UV–Vis …

Thin films of various metal oxides were prepared on glass substrates by a wet process to
determine their photocatalytic ability to decompose adsorbed dye and to evaluate their …

High surface area Ag-ZnO catalysts have been made by flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) and
characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), nitrogen adsorption, UV–vis spectroscopy and …

Novel chitosan/ZnO nanoparticle (CS/nano-ZnO) composite membranes were prepared via
the method of sol-cast transformation and studied by UV–vis absorption spectroscopy (UV …

La-doped ZnO nanoparticles with different La contents were synthesized and characterized
by various sophisticated techniques such as XRD, UV–vis, AFM, XPS, and HR-SEM. The …