Heavy metal removal from wastewater using nanomaterials-process and engineering aspects

SS Kolluru, S Agarwal, S Sireesha, I Sreedhar… - Process Safety and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanomaterial adsorbents are highly favorable for heavy metal removal due to their large
specific surface areas with enhanced active sites for contaminant adsorption. This paper …

Photocatalytic water oxidation on ZnO: a review

SB Abdul Hamid, SJ Teh, CW Lai - Catalysts, 2017 - mdpi.com
The investigation of the water oxidation mechanism on photocatalytic semiconductor
surfaces has gained much attention for its potential to unlock the technological limitations of …

Impact of Erbium (Er) and Yttrium (Y) doping on BiVO4 crystal structure towards the enhancement of photoelectrochemical water splitting and photocatalytic …

S Moscow, V Kavinkumar, M Sriramkumar… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
An efficient BiVO 4 nanocatalyst with Erbium (Er) and Yttrium (Y) doping was synthesized via
a facile microwave irradiation route and the obtained materials were further characterized …

Hydrothermal synthesis and photoelectrochemical properties of vertically aligned tungsten trioxide (hydrate) plate-like arrays fabricated directly on FTO substrates

J Yang, W Li, J Li, D Sun, Q Chen - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Without the assistance of a WO3 seed layer, a uniform tungsten trioxide hydrate (WO3· H2O)
plate-like array film was grown directly on bare fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass by a …

ZnO thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering: Effects of the annealing and atmosphere conditions on the photocatalytic hydrogen production

MRA Cruz, O Ceballos-Sanchez… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This work studied the effect of different annealing conditions of ZnO thin films grown by RF
magnetron sputtering and their application as photocatalysts for hydrogen production …

Effect of Cu, Ni and Pb doping on the photo-electrochemical activity of ZnO thin films

AA Aboud, M Shaban, N Revaprasadu - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present study, the effects of metallic doping on the photoelectron\chemical properties
of zinc oxide thin films have been studied. All films have been deposited using the spray …

Enhanced photoelectrochemical activity of Ce doped ZnO nanocomposite thin films under visible light

M Yousefi, M Amiri, R Azimirad, AZ Moshfegh - Journal of Electroanalytical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Ce-doped ZnO and pure ZnO nanocomposite thin films with different Ce/Zn ratios (0, 2, 5,
10, 15, 20, and 30at.%) have been prepared by sol–gel method at optimum annealing …

Metal oxide nanomaterials for solar hydrogen generation from photoelectrochemical water splitting

JZ Zhang - MRS bulletin, 2011 - cambridge.org
This review focuses on recent developments in the study of hydrogen generation from water
splitting using photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells based on metal oxide (MO) nanomaterials …

Effect of the precursor on the synthesis of ZnO and its photocatalytic activity

I Limón-Rocha, CA Guzmán-González… - Inorganics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Zinc nitrate (ZnON) and zinc acetate (ZnOA) were used as precursors for the synthesis of
zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles by the sol–gel method. The ZnO powder was characterized …

[HTML][HTML] 8.0 MeV copper ion (Cu++) irradiation-induced effects on structural, electrical, optical and electrochemical properties of Co3O4-NiO-ZnO/GO nanowires

RM Obodo, A Ahmad, GH Jain, I Ahmad… - Materials Science for …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Co 3 O 4-NiO-ZnO/GO nanowires were fabricated with the addition of graphene
oxide (GO) obtained by a modified Hummer's method. Nanocomposite powder of Co 3 O 4 …