Photocatalysts for Water Treatment Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 246
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heterogeneous photocatalysis in gaseous and liquid phases; physicochemical properties of nanostructured photocatalysts; kinetics and mechanisms of photochemical reaction; chemical engineering
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis; acido-basic and catalytic properties of mixed oxides; environmental catalytic processes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Removal of pollutants from water is one of the most important topics of our time. Water pollution significantly restricts the access of certain sections of the human population to drinking water. Immediate water pollution problems exist especially in developing countries. Recently, new types of pollutants, such as hormones, drugs, and pesticides, have gained importance as water pollutants though their removal has not yet been satisfactorily addressed. Photocatalytic processes represent one of the most practical and attractive tools for the decontamination of waste water. The photocatalytic decomposition of pollutants is attractive due to its high degradation rates, high efficiency of mineralization and, in general, nontoxicity of final products. The structural arrangement of photoreactors allowing high quantum yields for the long-time operation at a minimum cost is a particular issue.
Prof. Kamila Kočí
Prof. Libor Čapek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photocatalysts
- wastewater treatment
- photocatalytic processes
- photocatalytic decomposition of pollutants
- reaction mechanism and kinetics
- photoreactors
