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Search for "environmental remediation" in Full Text gives 42 result(s) in Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.

Perovskite-structured CaTiO3 coupled with g-C3N4 as a heterojunction photocatalyst for organic pollutant degradation

  • Ashish Kumar,
  • Christian Schuerings,
  • Suneel Kumar,
  • Ajay Kumar and
  • Venkata Krishnan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 671–685, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.62

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  • degradation of pollutants has been proposed and discussed. Keywords: CaTiO3; graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4); heterojunction photocatalyst; pollutant degradation; Introduction Photocatalysis is recognized as an attractive approach for environmental remediation and energy generation applications due to its
  • earth-abundant carbon and nitrogen elements and the low cost of the initial precursors promotes it as a promising photocatalytic material for diverse applications, such as energy generation [17][18][19], sensor [20], and fuel cell applications [21], as well as environmental remediation [22]. The band
  • attributed to the exact positions of energy band offsets of the coupled materials, which facilitates the photogenerated charge transfer and effectively suppresses their recombination. Moreover, perovskite materials are also potential candidates for environmental remediation applications and are well-explored
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Published 21 Feb 2018

Mechanistic insights into plasmonic photocatalysts in utilizing visible light

  • Kah Hon Leong,
  • Azrina Abd Aziz,
  • Lan Ching Sim,
  • Pichiah Saravanan,
  • Min Jang and
  • Detlef Bahnemann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 628–648, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.59

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  • , promising and reliable approach towards energy generation and environmental remediation [1][2]. In line with this, the identification of photocatalysts capable of harvesting energy from the wider electromagnetic spectrum has become the focus of most researchers. The ability to harvest such a wide spectrum
  • the formation and identification of ROSs and their interaction with pollutants was clearly presented. The future prospects of these sustainable photocatalysts with real-time applications for energy storage and environmental remediation were thoroughly reviewed. The present review also revealed the
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Published 19 Feb 2018

Involvement of two uptake mechanisms of gold and iron oxide nanoparticles in a co-exposure scenario using mouse macrophages

  • Dimitri Vanhecke,
  • Dagmar A. Kuhn,
  • Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi,
  • Sandor Balog,
  • Ana Milosevic,
  • Dominic Urban,
  • Diana Peckys,
  • Niels de Jonge,
  • Wolfgang J. Parak,
  • Alke Petri-Fink and
  • Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2396–2409, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.239

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  • rise of nanotechnology-containing products [1]. Numerous contemporary developments in consumer products (e.g., food additives, cosmetics and sporting equipment), environmental remediation, medicine and information technology heavily rely on innovative nanomaterial-driven industrial technology [2]. A
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Published 14 Nov 2017

Two-dimensional carbon-based nanocomposites for photocatalytic energy generation and environmental remediation applications

  • Suneel Kumar,
  • Ashish Kumar,
  • Ashish Bahuguna,
  • Vipul Sharma and
  • Venkata Krishnan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1571–1600, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.159

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  • sustainable source for energy generation and environmental remediation, photocatalytic water splitting and photocatalytic pollutant degradation have recently gained significant importance. Research in this field is aimed at solving the global energy crisis and environmental issues in an ecologically-friendly
  • energy generation and environmental remediation using two-dimensional carbon-based nanocomposites. It begins with a brief introduction to the field, basic principles of photocatalytic water splitting for energy generation and environmental remediation, followed by the properties of carbon-based
  • perspectives of research in this field are also briefly mentioned. Keywords: energy generation; environmental remediation; graphene; graphitic carbon nitride; nanocomposites; photocatalysis; two-dimensional carbon; Review Introduction The problems of global energy shortage and environmental pollution are
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Published 03 Aug 2017

Needs and challenges for assessing the environmental impacts of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs)

  • Michelle Romero-Franco,
  • Hilary A. Godwin,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Yoram Cohen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 989–1014, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.101

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  • over 1000 nano-enabled consumer products [1], representing an estimated global and US markets of $1 trillion and $800 billion, respectively [2]. Applications of ENMS include, for example, nanomedicine (e.g., drug delivery, early diagnosis and therapy for chronic diseases) [3] and environmental
  • remediation [4]. Given the rapid growth of the market for ENMs, there is concern about potential adverse impacts from possible exposures to ENMs during production, distribution, use, and disposal [5]. Human exposure to ENMs can occur through inhalation, ingestion or dermal absorption. Despite the fact that
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Published 05 May 2017

High photocatalytic activity of Fe2O3/TiO2 nanocomposites prepared by photodeposition for degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

  • Shu Chin Lee,
  • Hendrik O. Lintang and
  • Leny Yuliati

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 915–926, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.93

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  • have been widely suggested for environmental remediation under mild conditions. In the presence of only a photocatalyst and a light source of appropriate energy, the process can mineralize organic pollutants to harmless products such as carbon dioxide and water. Among the semiconductor photocatalysts
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Published 24 Apr 2017

Laser irradiation in water for the novel, scalable synthesis of black TiOx photocatalyst for environmental remediation

  • Massimo Zimbone,
  • Giuseppe Cacciato,
  • Mohamed Boutinguiza,
  • Vittorio Privitera and
  • Maria Grazia Grimaldi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 196–202, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.21

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  • inertness (even in a corrosive environment), stability, abundance and nontoxicity. Nevertheless, its exploitation in environmental remediation, and in particular in water purification, is relatively limited due to its wide band gap (≈3.2 eV). This means that only 5% of the incoming solar radiation can be
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Published 19 Jan 2017

Development of highly faceted reduced graphene oxide-coated copper oxide and copper nanoparticles on a copper foil surface

  • Rebeca Ortega-Amaya,
  • Yasuhiro Matsumoto,
  • Andrés M. Espinoza-Rivas,
  • Manuel A. Pérez-Guzmán and
  • Mauricio Ortega-López

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1010–1017, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.93

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  • combine GO with inorganic nanoparticles has led to nanocomposites with multiple functionalities [4][5]. Because of this, nanocomposites based on GO/inorganic nanoparticles are currently of interest for applications in biomedicine, energy production, electronics and environmental remediation [6][7][8]. A
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Published 11 Jul 2016

Novel roles for well-known players: from tobacco mosaic virus pests to enzymatically active assemblies

  • Claudia Koch,
  • Fabian J. Eber,
  • Carlos Azucena,
  • Alexander Förste,
  • Stefan Walheim,
  • Thomas Schimmel,
  • Alexander M. Bittner,
  • Holger Jeske,
  • Hartmut Gliemann,
  • Sabine Eiben,
  • Fania C. Geiger and
  • Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 613–629, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.54

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  • , batteries, photoelectrochemical cells or environmental remediation [63][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113], as scaffolds for the display of reporter dyes, nanoparticles or contrast agents such as gadolinium complexes, for light harvesting
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Published 25 Apr 2016

Application of biclustering of gene expression data and gene set enrichment analysis methods to identify potentially disease causing nanomaterials

  • Andrew Williams and
  • Sabina Halappanavar

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2438–2448, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.252

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  • applications [43]. Current applications of NMs include therapeutic applications (e.g., nanomedicine, drug delivery, diagnostics), agriculture, manufacturing, electronics, cosmetics, textiles, and environmental remediation and protection. Although NMs are synthesized from their corresponding, known, bulk
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Published 21 Dec 2015

Structural and magnetic properties of iron nanowires and iron nanoparticles fabricated through a reduction reaction

  • Marcin Krajewski,
  • Wei Syuan Lin,
  • Hong Ming Lin,
  • Katarzyna Brzozka,
  • Sabina Lewinska,
  • Natalia Nedelko,
  • Anna Slawska-Waniewska,
  • Jolanta Borysiuk and
  • Dariusz Wasik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1652–1660, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.167

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  • treatment [3] as well as labelling and separation of biological materials [4]. Besides the biomedical exploitation, iron-based nanostructures can be used in the fields of data storage [5], catalysis [6], energy storage [7] and environmental remediation [8]. However, different properties are required for
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Published 29 Jul 2015

Thermal treatment of magnetite nanoparticles

  • Beata Kalska-Szostko,
  • Urszula Wykowska,
  • Dariusz Satula and
  • Per Nordblad

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1385–1396, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.143

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  • materials, sensors and catalysts [4], or even environmental remediation or sieves [5]. For this reason, the study of the physical properties and the chemical and thermal stability of ferrite nanoparticles is of crucial importance [6]. Moreover, magnetite nanostructures can be relatively easy to obtain by a
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Published 23 Jun 2015

Carbon nano-onions (multi-layer fullerenes): chemistry and applications

  • Juergen Bartelmess and
  • Silvia Giordani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1980–1998, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.207

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  • layers between the biomolecules and the gold surface of the sensor and led to an amplified signal of the biosensor, as determined by surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. In addition, the biocompatibility of CNOs was investigated and found to be excellent. Environmental remediation: An application of
  • CNO in environmental remediation was studied by Li group [54], who revealed that surface-oxidized CNO in aqueous suspensions have a high sorption capacity for heavy metal ions such as Pb2+, Cu2+, Cd2+, Ni2+ and Zn2+. The sorption capacity of oxidized CNOs was found to be up to ten times higher than
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Published 04 Nov 2014

Pyrite nanoparticles as a Fenton-like reagent for in situ remediation of organic pollutants

  • Carolina Gil-Lozano,
  • Elisabeth Losa-Adams,
  • Alfonso F.-Dávila and
  • Luis Gago-Duport

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 855–864, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.97

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  • growing interest in nanomaterials for green environmental remediation. For example, catalytically active synthetic nanoparticles inspired by natural minerals have been combined with in situ advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) as a potential strategy to remediate contaminants [1][2][3]. These AOPs generate
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Published 16 Jun 2014

Nanostructure sensitization of transition metal oxides for visible-light photocatalysis

  • Hongjun Chen and
  • Lianzhou Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 696–710, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.82

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  • visible-light photocatalytic reaction processes in environmental remediation and solar fuel generation fields, are also introduced. A brief outlook on the nanostructure photosensitization is also given. Keywords: carbon nanostructures; nanostructure sensitization; plasmonic metal nanostructures; quantum
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Published 23 May 2014

Effects of the preparation method on the structure and the visible-light photocatalytic activity of Ag2CrO4

  • Difa Xu,
  • Shaowen Cao,
  • Jinfeng Zhang,
  • Bei Cheng and
  • Jiaguo Yu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 658–666, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.77

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  • . Considering the universalities of microemulsion, precipitation, and hydrothermal methods, this work may also provide a prototype for the comparative study of semiconductor based photocatalysis for water purification and environmental remediation. Keywords: microemulsion method; nanoparticles; photocatalysis
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Published 19 May 2014

Structural, optical and photocatalytic properties of flower-like ZnO nanostructures prepared by a facile wet chemical method

  • Sini Kuriakose,
  • Neha Bhardwaj,
  • Jaspal Singh,
  • Biswarup Satpati and
  • Satyabrata Mohapatra

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 763–770, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.87

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  • photocatalysts such as ZnO and TiO2 have attracted significant attention in recent years because of their wide-spread application in environmental remediation [1][2]. These photocatalysts have a high efficiency for the degradation of toxic organic pollutants that originate from the effluents of textile and
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Published 18 Nov 2013
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