High performance sulfur, nitrogen and carbon doped mesoporous anatase-brookite TiO2 photocatalyst for the removal of microcystin-LR under visible light irradiation

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 280, Issue , 2014, Pages 723-733

  El Sheikh, Said M ^a   Zhang, Geshan ^b   El Hosainy, Hamza M ^a   Ismail, Adel A ^a   O'Shea, Kevin E ^c   Falaras, Polycarpos ^d   Kontos, Athanassios G ^d   Dionysiou, Dionysios D ^b  

^a CMRDI   (Egypt)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brookite anatase heterojunction; Microcystin LR; Non metal doped; Photodegradation; Visible light; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

WATER TREATMENT;

BROOKITE TIO; MESOPOROUS ANATASE; METAL-DOPED; MICROCYSTIN-LR; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

PHOTODEGRADATION;

BROOKITE; CARBON; MICROCYSTIN LR; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; NITROGEN; SULFUR; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MICROCYSTIN; TITANIUM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; DOPING; ILLUMINATION; IRRADIATION; ISOTHERM; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTANT; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION STUDY; PHOTOLYSIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARBON; LIGHT; MICROCYSTINS; NITROGEN; PHOTOLYSIS; SULFUR; TITANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84908372599     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2014.08.038     Document Type: Article

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