Recent developments of zinc oxide based photocatalyst in water treatment technology: a review

KM Lee, CW Lai, KS Ngai, JC Juan - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Today, a major issue about water pollution is the residual dyes from different sources (eg,
textile industries, paper and pulp industries, dye and dye intermediates industries …

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 …

Conversion of carbon dioxide into methanol–a potential liquid fuel: Fundamental challenges and opportunities (a review)

I Ganesh - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
As on today, the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2) into value added chemicals including
methanol using exclusively solar energy (ie, artificial photosynthesis) has been considered …

A new function of spent activated carbon in BAC process: Removing heavy metals by ion exchange mechanism

L Dong, L Hou, Z Wang, P Gu, G Chen… - Journal of hazardous …, 2018 - Elsevier
To investigate the potential of the spent activated carbon (AC) on removing heavy metals,
the spent ACs used 5 years were collected from a full-scale BAC water treatment plant of …

Hibiscus subdariffa leaf extract mediated 2-D fern-like ZnO/TiO2 hierarchical nanoleaf for photocatalytic degradation

N Suganthi, S Thangavel, K Kannan - FlatChem, 2020 - Elsevier
Green synthesized nanoparticles are utilized as a photocatalyst for the degradation of an
organic dye such as methylene blue. In this study, Hibiscus subdariffa leaf extract act as a …

Preparation and characterization of Cu-doped TiO2 materials for electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, and photocatalytic applications

I Ganesh, PP Kumar, I Annapoorna, JM Sumliner… - Applied Surface …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cu-doped TiO 2 (Cu= 0-50 wt.%) powders and thin films were prepared by
following a homogeneous co-precipitation method and sol-gel dip-coating technique …

Green synthesis of glycerol carbonate by transesterification of bio glycerol with dimethyl carbonate over Mg/ZnO: A highly efficient heterogeneous catalyst

G Pradhan, YC Sharma - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Glycerol carbonate is one of the trending value added chemicals in biodiesel industry, which
extensively used in pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries as well as green solvent in …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of Fe-doped ZnO by supercritical antisolvent precipitation for the degradation of azo dyes under visible light

A Mancuso, O Sacco, S Mottola, S Pragliola… - Inorganica Chimica …, 2023 - Elsevier
Supercritical antisolvent precipitation was used to obtain ZnO (undoped) and Fe-doped ZnO
photocatalysts at different Fe/Zn molar ratio percentages (0.57, 0.75 and 0.84 mol%). Wide …

Fabrication of TiO2/ZnO nanocomposites for solar energy driven photocatalysis

P Prasannalakshmi, N Shanmugam - Materials Science in Semiconductor …, 2017 - Elsevier
The facile sol-gel method was suggested to prepare the TiO 2/ZnO photocatalysts. For that,
the nanocomposites of TiO 2/ZnO were prepared with different amounts of zinc and oxide …

High-efficiency and low-cost Li/ZnO catalysts for synthesis of glycerol carbonate from glycerol transesterification: The role of Li and ZnO interaction

X Song, Y Wu, F Cai, D Pan, G Xiao - Applied catalysis a: general, 2017 - Elsevier
A series of efficient and low-cost Li/ZnO catalysts were prepared by a simple impregnation
method and investigated for the synthesis of glycerol carbonate (GC) from the …