Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring and Management, volume 12, pages 100255

Action and mechanism of semiconductor photocatalysis on degradation of organic pollutants in water treatment: A review

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2019-12-01
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
Impact factor
ISSN22151532, 22151532
Materials Science (miscellaneous)
Pollution
Waste Management and Disposal
Water Science and Technology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Abstract
Semiconductors photocatalyst, applied in the degradation of organic pollutants in water, were summarized due to its durability, low cost, low toxicity, super-hydrophilicity, and remarkable chemical and photochemical stability. Firstly, this paper intensively summarized the photocatalytic activity of single semiconductors photocatalyst. However, single semiconductors photocatalyst showed some drawbacks that is fast recombination of electron/hole, low adsorption about visible light and low surface coverage of photocatalysts. Thus, coupling semiconductors with desirable matching electronic bandgap and doping semiconductor photocatalysts have been discussed detailly. Notably, the Ag-based semiconductor photocatalysts has been highlight. The indicators for evaluating photocatalysis properties including pollution adsorption, kinetic and recyclability were discussed in detail. In addition, the mechanisms of photocatalytic reaction were discussed, which showed the mechanism is redox reaction and the process could degrade a wide range of organic pollutants into easily degradable intermediates or less toxic small molecular substances.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1016/j.enmm.2019.100255
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enmm.2019.100255
TI - Action and mechanism of semiconductor photocatalysis on degradation of organic pollutants in water treatment: A review
T2 - Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring and Management
AU - Zhu, Dandan
AU - Zhou, Qixing
PY - 2019
DA - 2019/12/01 00:00:00
PB - Elsevier
SP - 100255
VL - 12
SN - 2215-1532
SN - 2215-1532
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@article{2019_Zhu,
author = {Dandan Zhu and Qixing Zhou},
title = {Action and mechanism of semiconductor photocatalysis on degradation of organic pollutants in water treatment: A review},
journal = {Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring and Management},
year = {2019},
volume = {12},
publisher = {Elsevier},
month = {dec},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enmm.2019.100255},
pages = {100255},
doi = {10.1016/j.enmm.2019.100255}
}
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