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Photocatalytic Activity: Experimental Features To Report In Heterogeneous Photocatalysis, Md. Ariful Hoque, Marcelo I. Guzman Oct 2018

Photocatalytic Activity: Experimental Features To Report In Heterogeneous Photocatalysis, Md. Ariful Hoque, Marcelo I. Guzman

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a prominent area of research with major applications in solar energy conversion, air pollution mitigation, and removal of contaminants from water. A large number of scientific papers related to the photocatalysis field and its environmental applications are published in different journals specializing in materials and nanomaterials. However, many problems exist in the conception of papers by authors unfamiliar with standard characterization methods of photocatalysts as well as with the procedures needed to determine photocatalytic activities based on the determination of “apparent quantum efficiencies” within a wavelength interval or “apparent quantum yields” in the case of using monochromatic …


One-Pot Synthesis In Polyamines For Preparation Of Water-Soluble Magnetite Nanoparticles With Amine Surface Reactivity, Haiou Qu, Hui Ma, Aurélien Riviere, Weilie Zhou, Charles J. O'Connor Jan 2012

One-Pot Synthesis In Polyamines For Preparation Of Water-Soluble Magnetite Nanoparticles With Amine Surface Reactivity, Haiou Qu, Hui Ma, Aurélien Riviere, Weilie Zhou, Charles J. O'Connor

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Magnetite nanoparticles with hydrophilic surface coating are prepared in polyamine solvents. The resulting products are highly stable in polar solvent. The surface amine groups are available for secondary reactions.