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Innovative and Practical Trends in Photocatalytic Degradation of Environmental Pollutants
This special issue belongs to the section “Photocatalysis“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Semiconducting metal oxide nanostructures play an important role in developing smart materials that are effective for sensing and destroying harmful chemical contaminants from our environment. Photocatalysis is widely used to degrade and mineralize hazardous organic compounds, reduce toxic metal ions to their non-toxic states, deactivate and destroy water borne microorganisms, decompose air pollutants including volatile organic compounds, NOx, CO and NH3, remove pathogens from air, and degrade waste plastics.
This Special Issue is a collection of original research papers, reviews, and commentaries that address the development and application of innovative photocatalytic systems for environmental remediation. Submissions are welcome in, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Development of novel semiconductors and/or composites for environmental remediation;
- Photocatalytic degradation of emerging contaminants in wastewater;
- Use of photocatalysis for indoor and urban air quality intervention;
- Scale-up approaches for photocatalytic degradation systems;
- Economic and life cycle assessment of for environmental remediation by photocatalysis.
Dr. Mohamed Ateia
Prof. Dr. Matthew Stanley Johnson
Dr. Bożena Czech
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Photocatalysis
- Composite materials
- Wastewater treatment
- Emerging water contaminants
- Indoor air quality
- Urban air quality
- Life cycle analysis
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