ZnO nanostructured materials and their potential applications: progress, challenges and perspectives

S Raha, M Ahmaruzzaman - Nanoscale Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Extensive research in nanotechnology has been conducted to investigate new behaviours
and properties of materials with nanoscale dimensions. ZnO NPs owing to their distinct …

Photocatalytic degradation of dyes using semiconductor photocatalysts to clean industrial water pollution

A Rafiq, M Ikram, S Ali, F Niaz, M Khan, Q Khan… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Textile industry represents a pollution problem worldwide due to the accidental discharge or
dumping of polluted wastewater into the waterways, which is having a major influence on …

Advances in the strategies for enhancing the photocatalytic activity of TiO2: Conversion from UV-light active to visible-light active photocatalyst

I Arora, H Chawla, A Chandra, S Sagadevan… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advanced oxidation process, a green method in contribution to betterment in environment
has been emerged to a larger scale in past decades. Conventional wastewater strategies …

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 …

Review on the criteria anticipated for the fabrication of highly efficient ZnO-based visible-light-driven photocatalysts

M Pirhashemi, A Habibi-Yangjeh, SR Pouran - Journal of industrial and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Among the popular photocatalysts, ZnO is one of the most potent photocatalysts considering
its green properties, cheap price, and durability. However, the practical application of ZnO is …

ZnO/Ag/CdO nanocomposite for visible light-induced photocatalytic degradation of industrial textile effluents

R Saravanan, MM Khan, VK Gupta, E Mosquera… - Journal of colloid and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract A ternary ZnO/Ag/CdO nanocomposite was synthesized using thermal
decomposition method. The resulting nanocomposite was characterized by X-ray diffraction …

Basic principles, mechanism, and challenges of photocatalysis

R Saravanan, F Gracia, A Stephen - Nanocomposites for visible light …, 2017 - Springer
Photocatalyst is a gifted method which can be used for various purposes like degradation of
various organic pollutants in wastewater, production of hydrogen, purification of air, and …

Photocatalysts with internal electric fields

L Li, PA Salvador, GS Rohrer - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The photocatalytic activity of materials for water splitting is limited by the recombination of
photogenerated electron–hole pairs as well as the back-reaction of intermediate species …

Enhanced photocatalytic activity of ZnO/CuO nanocomposite for the degradation of textile dye on visible light illumination

R Saravanan, S Karthikeyan, VK Gupta… - Materials Science and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes such as methylene blue and methyl orange
in the presence of various percentages of composite catalyst under visible light irradiation …

[HTML][HTML] Photocatalytic, antibacterial and anticancer activity of silver-doped zinc oxide nanoparticles

R Rajendran, A Mani - Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Silver-doped zinc oxide nanoparticles (Ag-ZnO NPs) were successfully synthesized by the
Sol-gel method coated with polyethylene glycol as a stabilizing and capping agent. The UV …