Document Type
Article
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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
1. NATURAL SCIENCES, 1.3 PHYSICAL SCIENCES, 1.4 CHEMICAL SCIENCES, Inorganic and nuclear chemistry, 1.5 EARTH AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, Environmental sciences
Abstract
A novel class of photocatalytic coating capable of degrading bacterial and chemical contaminants in the presence of visible sunlight wavelengths was produced by depositing a stable photocatalytic TiO
2 film on the internal lumen of glass bottles via a sol–gel method. This coating was prepared in either undoped form or doped with nitrogen and/or copper to produce visible light-active TiO2 films which were annealed at 600 ◦C and were characterized by Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The presence of doped and undoped TiO2 films was found to accelerate the degradation of methylene blue in the presence of natural sunlight, while copper-doped TiO2 films were found to accelerate bacterial inactivation (of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis) in the presence of natural sunlight
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2012.10.013
Recommended Citation
Fisher, M. et al. (2012) Nitrogen and copper doped solar light active TiO2 photocatalysts for water decontamination. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Volumes 130–131, 7 February 2013, pp. 8–13 doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2012.10.013
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EI
Publication Details
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Volumes 130–131, 7 February 2013, Pages 8-13, ISSN 0926-3373,