Recent advances in photocatalytic nanomaterials for environmental remediation: strategies, mechanisms, and future directions

X Zhang, S Xiong, A Sathiyaseelan, L Zhang, Y Lu… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Innovative and efficient strategies are urgently needed for wastewater treatment and
environmental remediation. The photocatalytic degradation properties of photo-responsive …

Recent advances in waste-derived carbon dots and their nanocomposites for environmental remediation and biological applications

H Soni, M Bhattu, SD Priya, M Kaur, M Verma… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The surging demand for eco-friendly nanomaterial synthesis has spurred the emergence of
green approaches for synthesizing carbon dots (CDs). These methods utilized natural …

Precursor effect on the hydrothermal synthesis of pure ZnO nanostructures and enhanced photocatalytic performance for norfloxacin degradation

RR Leite, R Colombo, FEB Júnior… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The indiscriminate production and use of antibiotics have caused an environmental
imbalance. Therefore, advanced oxidative processes such as photocatalysis have been …

Efficient adsorption of cationic and anionic dyes using hydrochar nanoparticles prepared from orange peel

N Hamad, AA Galhoum, A Saad, S Wageh - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrochar nanoparticles biosorbent (HCNPs), derived from orange peel was prepared via
an in-situ hydrothermal carbonization method. The HCNPs were tested as an effective …

[HTML][HTML] Novel furfural-complexed approach to synthesizing carbon-Doped ZnO with breakthrough photocatalytic efficacy

SA Ansari, N Parveen, A Aljaafari, A Alshoaibi… - Journal of Advanced …, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction The efficiency of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles for environmental
decontamination is limited by their reliance on ultraviolet (UV) light and rapid charge carrier …

Organometallic one-pot synthesis of ZnO quantum dots coated by sulfoxides as L-type ligands

M Jędrzejewska, M Wolska-Pietkiewicz… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Although an extraordinary amount of research into the chemistry of nanoscale zinc oxide
(ZnO) has been conducted over the past three decades, application-driven design and …

[HTML][HTML] Solvothermal synthesized N–S doped carbon dots derived from cavendish banana peel (Musa paradisiaca) for detection of Fe (III) and Pb (II)

M Hamid, S Humaidi, H Wijoyo, I Isnaeni… - Case Studies in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The synthesis of NS-CDs was carried out using precursors from Cavendish Banana Peel
and l-Cysteine as a dopant with the solvothermal method. The characteristics of NS-CDs …

Interlinking the Fe doping concentration, optoelectronic properties, and photocatalytic performance of ZnO nanostructures

A Esbergenova, M Hojamberdiev, ZC Kadirova… - Current Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Doping is one of the effective strategies to modulate the optoelectronic properties and
photocatalytic activity of photocatalysts. In this study, the effect of Fe doping (0–10%) on …

Synergistic photocatalysis: harnessing WSe2-ZnO nanocomposites for efficient malachite green dye degradation

A Abutaleb, S Ahmed, M Imran - The European Physical Journal …, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
In this work, the zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods on the WSe2 nanosheets were synthesized by a
two-step method. The synthesized nanomaterials were characterized by XRD and SEM to …

ZnO-decorated green-synthesized multi-doped carbon dots from Chlorella pyrenoidosa for sustainable photocatalytic carbamazepine degradation

AF Borzyszkowska, A Sulowska, P Czaja… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The promising green synthesis of carbon dots (CDs) from microalga Chlorella pyrenoidosa
was achieved using simple hydrothermal and microwave-assisted methods. Doping of …