Bye bye palladium. Kai A. I. Zhang and coworkers develope a palladium-free and photocatalytic Stille-type coupling reaction of aryl iodides and aryl stannanes by a conjugated micro porous polymer-based photocatalyst under visible light irradiation at room temperature in article number 1700101. Via the aryl radical-mediated reaction pathway, the light-promoted coupling reaction using a pure orga...

This article addresses the design of a new photocatalytically active gypsum plaster. A hemihydrate in beta type is used as binder to design this material and a carbon modified TiO2 that can be activated by visible light is used as photocatalyst. An own developed test setup to assess the indoor air purification capacity of the developed material is presented. The new product possesses the indoor...

The photocatalytic degradation of Evans Blue has been studied under visible light in the presence of N-doped ZnO as a photocatalyst. N-doped ZnO was prepared by the solvent free method. The photocatalytic activity of ZnO and N-doped ZnO was compared by investigating the photodegradation of Evans Blue dye under visible light. The effect of different parameters like pH, concentration of the Dye, ...

Laboratory experiments have been performed to investigate photocatalytic detoxification by using TiO2 photocatalyst for treating dairy effluent. Various operational parameters such as catalyst concentration, initial concentration, angle of tilt of solar flat plate reactor and flow rate were investigated. Results indicated that the photocatalytic detoxification process can efficiently treat dair...

Silver orthophosphate (Ag3PO4) is a low-band-gap photocatalyst that has received considerable research interest in recent years. In this work, the magnetic Ag3PO4/TiO2/Fe3O4 heterostructured nanocomposite was synthesized. The nanocomposite was found to exhibit markedly enhanced photocatalytic activity, cycling stability, and long-term durability in the photodegradation of acid orange 7 (AO7) un...

In this work, we have tested a photocatalytic material consisting of core SiO2/Fe3O4 coated with TiO2 (Magnox) for plausible tertiary wastewater treatment. For this, pilot plant 45 L equipped an Ultraviolet light (UVC) lamp was employed to study the degradation model contaminant, enrofloxacin (ENR), as well water disinfection (elimination Escherichia coli and Clostridium perfringens). The influ...

During the last decade, a great variety of nanostructures (nanotubes, nanofibers or nanowires) based on metals, carbons, polymers or semiconductors, have been synthesized following different synthesis procedures by using nanoporous anodic alumina membranes (AAM) as templates [1]. The principal reason for using templates of nanoporous AAM as precursor patterns lies on the possibility to obtain, ...

Titania pillared montmorillonite from Indonesian montmorillonite by using titanium isopropoxide as precursor was successfully prepared. Physico-chemical character of material by using x-ray diffraction, gas sorption analyzer, diffuse reflectance UV-Visible, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive x-ray (EDAX) showed the dipersion of titania in dominantly anatase phase that is t...

An iridium photocatalyst and visible light facilitate a room temperature, nickel-catalyzed coupling of (hetero)aryl bromides with activated α-heterosubstituted or benzylic C(sp3)-H bonds. Mechanistic investigations on this unprecedented transformation have uncovered the possibility of an unexpected mechanism hypothesized to involve a Ni-Br homolysis event from an excited-state nickel complex. T...

Nickel oxide thin film of various preferred orientations was deposited using sol-gel method using solvents including methanol. The resulting film was analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), contact angle measurement, and ultraviolet spectroscopy (UV-vis). Antibacterial activities of nickel oxide-based film against gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli) has...