Efficiency of clay - TiO2 nanocomposites on the photocatalytic elimination of a model hydrophobic air pollutant

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1500-1506

  Kibanova, Daria ^a   Cervini Silva, Javiera ^a,b   Destaillats, Hugo ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c Environ Ener Technologies Division   (United States)

^d Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; IRRADIATION; KAOLINITE; MOLECULES; PHASE INTERFACES; PHOTOCATALYSTS; REACTION RATES; RIVERS; SECONDARY EMISSION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

DIFFUSION SOURCES; DIPCOATING METHODS; ENHANCED ADSORPTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTANTS; WITHOUT UV IRRADIATIONS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM SILICATE; NANOCOMPOSITE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TOLUENE; TITANIUM;

ADSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CATALYSIS; CLAY; COMPOSITE; HYDROPHOBICITY; INHIBITION; MODELING; OXIDE; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TITANIUM; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CLAY; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; ELIMINATION REACTION; HUMIDITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PHOTOCATALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VOLATILIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALUMINUM SILICATES; CATALYSIS; HUMIDITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; TITANIUM; TOLUENE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 63049116337     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es803032t     Document Type: Article

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