Tag: photocatalysis

Nigerian researchers have shown that TiO₂-BiOI nanocomposites supported on activated coal fly ash can completely remove bacteria from contaminated household ...

Researchers have engineered leach-resistant graphene oxide-metal oxide coatings on sand that remove pharmaceutical pollutants from water with long-term stability and ...

A new critical review maps how light-activated photonanozymes are engineered, what they can catalyze, and the hurdles standing between laboratory ...

Chemists in Munich have created a four-amino-acid peptide weighing under 750 daltons that harvests visible light and catalyzes enantioselective deracemizations ...

Chemists at Wuhan University have harnessed the β-silicon effect to weaken the O–H bonds of α-silyl alcohols, enabling direct photoinduced ...

A first-principles DFT study shows that nitrogen and oxygen co-doping, together with carboxylic acid functionalization, narrows the electronic gap of ...

A controlled comparative study shows that a Sargassum seaweed extract produces smaller, more stable, and optically distinct zinc oxide nanoparticles ...

Researchers coupled nitrogen-doped lignin-derived carbon quantum dots with BiOCl to create a composite photocatalyst that converts CO2 into carbon monoxide ...

Researchers in India report that an activated carbon coating activates the inert basal planes of layered MoS2, yielding a hybrid ...

A new review explains how carbon dots convert light into heat and reactive oxygen species, and what stands between these ...

Researchers have created a mesoporous nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide photocatalyst that degrades 99.3 percent of Rhodamine B dye in water within ...

A rationally designed bipyridine ligand and a non-nucleophilic guanidine additive enable visible-light-driven nickel catalysis to couple aryl bromides with diverse ...

Researchers have created a ZIF-8/chitosan/ZnO nanocomposite that adsorbs up to 490 milligrams of azo dye per gram and then degrades ...

Chemists have developed a borane-activated radical strategy that opens unactivated N-alkyl aziridines regioselectively and funnels them into copper- and nickel-catalysed ...

Researchers in India have converted discarded clam shells into a porous activated carbon supporting cerium-doped lanthanum cobaltite, creating a composite ...

University of Tennessee researchers are combining plant-derived nanocellulose with metal-organic frameworks to create portable materials that detect and break down ...

A ternary photoelectrode combining pencil-like ZnO rods, Co3O4 nanocubes, and g-C3N4 sheets achieves a photocurrent of 1.57 mA cm−2 and ...

A quaternary NiO–In₂O₃–MoO₃/g-C₃N₄ nanocomposite uses interface-driven charge transfer to degrade dyes under visible light, detect antibiotics at nanomolar levels and ...

An iron-modified titanium dioxide nanotube electrode combined with electricity, heat and ultraviolet light removed 92.1% of nitrobenzene from water within ...

Researchers in Kerala have synthesized mixed-phase indium sulfide nanopowder through a simple one-pot route, showing it degrades Rhodamine B and ...