Efficient photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants by magnetically recoverable nitrogen-doped TiO2 nanocomposite photocatalysts under visible light irradiation

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 18859-18873

  Hamzezadeh Nakhjavani, Sahar ^a   Tavakoli, Omid ^a   Akhlaghi, Seyed Parham ^a   Salehi, Zeinab ^a   Esmailnejad Ahranjani, Parvaneh ^b   Arpanaei, Ayyoob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Core shell nanocomposite particles; Magnetic separation; Nitrogen doping; Organic pollutants; Photocatalytic degradation; Titania; Visible light

Indexed keywords

CATALYST; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC METHOD; NANOPARTICLE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; OXIDATION; PHENOL; PHOTODEGRADATION; RECOVERY; TITANIUM; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

MAGNETITE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NITROGEN; PHENOL; SILICON DIOXIDE; TIO2-SIO2; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; RADIATION RESPONSE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WATER POLLUTANT; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYSIS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOCOMPOSITES; NITROGEN; PHENOL; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; TITANIUM; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84949107937     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5032-3     Document Type: Article

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