Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: • Environmental issues continue to intensify causing natural resources such as clean water to become increasingly scarce while demand only continues to grow. • Some of the most effective measures taken appear to be bioremediation tactics and their synthetic counterparts. • A critical area of interest are semi-conducting photocatalytic nanomaterials that take advantage of the photo-electric effect and use the introduction of ultra violet (UV) and visible light to induce oxidation and reduction reaction in p-type semiconductors. This results in the decomposition of certain pollutants and/or deactivates certain microbes in water. • These materials have the potential to operate using only light emitted from the sun, thus being free from the need for an external bias.
Language: English
Field: Energy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2900535689