Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is the leading material for self-cleaning applications due to its chemical inertness, mechanical robustness, durability to extended photocatalytic cycling, low cost and high photocatalytic activity. There has been a concerted effort to try and improve the material’s functional properties through impurity doping; altering the band structure and electronic transport proper...

Methyl orange (MO) is a common anionic azo dye that serious harmful pollutant to the environmental aquatic systems, so it must be treated before can discharged. Photocatalysts are usually semiconducting solid oxides create an electron-hole pair by absorbing photons. These electron holes react with molecules on surface of particles. used in water purification, self-cleaning glasses, decompositio...

Membrane separation has been widely utilized to eliminate pollutants from wastewater. Among them, a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) ultrafiltration (UF) membrane presented outstanding stability, and distinguished chemical thermal properties. However, UF membranes inevitably incur fouling issues during their operation procedure caused by contaminant adhesion on the surface, which would restrict operatio...

Water-repellent, self-cleaning and stain resistant textiles are of interest for industrial applications. Anthraquinone reactive dyes were covalently grafted onto cotton fabric surfaces obtaining bright colors with good wash-fastness properties and giving rise to breathable superhydrophobic textiles with self-cleaning properties.

Anatase, one of the polymorphs titanium dioxide (TiO2), has become most widely used semiconductor for photocatalytic materials due to its chemical and physical properties. However, researchers have been studying use alternative (e.g., ZnO, N-doped, C-doped TiO2) improve activity cementitious materials. In this paper, we propose a modification lightweight concrete by introducing mixed phases dio...