Mineral wool fibers incorporated with cuprous oxide for visible light photocatalytic inactivation of Escherichia coli

Ceramics International

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 5407-5412

  Zhu, Qingwei ^a,b   Zhang, Yihe ^b   Wu, Fade ^a   Tan, Danjun ^a   Wang, Pengqi ^a   Chu, Paul K ^c  

^a Beijing New Building Materials Public Limited Company   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Building materials; Cuprous oxide; Inactivation; Mineral wool fibers; Photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BUILDING MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGHT; MINERAL WOOL; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; RED SHIFT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WOOL; WOOL FIBERS; YARN;

BACTERICIDAL EFFECTS; CUPROUS OXIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI (E. COLI); INACTIVATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC INACTIVATIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY; UV-VISIBLE SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

COPPER OXIDES;

CATALYSTS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; FIBERS; INSULATION; MINERAL WOOL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84895071713     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2013.10.122     Document Type: Article

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