Photocatalysts for Organics Degradation
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Photocatalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2018) | Viewed by 36079
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface properties of materials; nanoporous materials; TiO2 modification; photocatalysis; emerging pollutants’ removal; IR spectroscopy; CO2 reduction
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Interests: surface properties and surface reactivity of polycrystalline solids of catalytic interest; supported noble metal nanoparticles; biomass conversion to value-added chemicals; microwave-assisted processes; ultrasound-assisted processes; selective hydrogenation; FT-IR and UV-Vis spectroscopies; gas volumetric measurements; X-ray diffraction; high-resolution transmission electron microscopy
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Interests: synthesis and characterization of heterostructured nanocrystals
Interests: sol–gel synthesis; porous materials; surface chemistry; oxide-based catalysts; metal-ceramic nanomaterials; zeolite precursors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Issue is devoted to papers concerning the synthesis, the physico-chemical properties and the performance of photo-catalysts for the degradation of organic pollutants. Research papers, reviews and perspectives dealing with the photo-catalytic degradation of most common organic pollutants (dyes, pesticides, herbicides, etc.) are welcome, as well as papers dealing with the removal of emerging ones, like drugs and their metabolites. Authors are encouraged to enlighten several aspects, including the synthesis of novel photocatalysts (hybrid materials, quantum dots, colloidal nanoparticles, doped mesostructured materials, etc..), the optimization of processes utilizing state-of-art photocatalysts and the influence of the physico-chemical properties of the photocatalyst on its final performance. Since one of the main issues related to the photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants is their actual mineralization as well as the formation of by-products that can be per se harmful, a number of papers dealing with the correct determination of mineralization as with the detection of such by-products is expected.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Bonelli
Dr. Maela Manzoli
Dr. Francesca S. Freyria
Dr. Serena Esposito
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Novel synthesis of photocatalysts
- Water remediation
- Organic pollutants degradation
- Harmful by-products
- Advanced Oxidation processes
- Physico-chemical properties of photocatalysts
- Fenton, Fenton-like and photo-Fenton processes
- Scale-up of photocatalytic processes
- Detection of degradation products
- Mineralization/Decoloration
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