From sunlight to sustainability: The properties, evolution, and prospects of photocatalytic building materials

Catalysis Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 72

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

This study explores the essential characteristics and mechanisms of photocatalytic building materials (PBMs), highlighting their crucial role in promoting sustainable construction practices. It examines how PBMs drive progress green technologies, significantly contributing to environmental preservation within urban infrastructure. The analysis encompasses development, properties, practical applications, potential advantages PBMs, demonstrating impact on advancing sustainability functionality modern architecture. implications synthesis approaches used develop (PC) creating self-cleaning surfaces (such as windows facades), integrating them with cementitious materials, developing antimicrobial improving air purification through photocatalysis are given special attention. Additionally, it underscores semiconductor materials' broad appeal multidisciplinary importance, emphasizing applications across various industries. review critically analyzes existing challenges field proposes future research avenues overcome them. Collectively, this seeks innovation enhance performance built environment by tackling current obstacles outlining directions.

Language: Английский

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Research Progress on Photocatalytic, Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrocatalytic Selectively Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural

Green Chemistry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 26(21), P. 10739 - 10773

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

This paper summarizes the latest research progress in selective photocatalytic, electrocatalytic, and photoelectrocatalytic oxidation of HMF, along with reaction mechanisms, advantages, challenges faced during HMF oxidation.

Language: Английский

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An electron delocalization with n-π* transitions of graphitic carbon nitride photocatalyst for visible-light-driven water decontamination

Environmental Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 121093 - 121093

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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A critical review on emerging photothermal-photocatalytic materials composed of g-C3N4 for energy production and environmental remediation

Journal of environmental chemical engineering, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 115812 - 115812

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Role of Leachate Characteristics on Carbon dots/TiO2 Photocatalytic and Bactericidal Inactivation Mechanism

Journal of environmental chemical engineering, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 116022 - 116022

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Performance of Sb2S3/Bi2S3/Fe2O3 Heterojunction via Bond-Induced Rapid Electron Transfer Channels

Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 136645 - 136645

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Controllable fabrication of Ag/ZnO/g-C3N4 nanofiber heterojunctions for enhanced photocatalytic water disinfection

Frontiers of Materials Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 19(1)

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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High-efficiency ciprofloxacin degradation achieved by assembling plasmonic Ag nanoparticles on oxygen vacancy-rich BiO2-x nanosheets

Applied Surface Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 163189 - 163189

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Photocatalytic Bioreactors in Water Treatment: Mechanisms, Challenges, and Innovations in Microbial Inactivation

Water Air & Soil Pollution, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 236(5)

Published: April 9, 2025

Language: Английский

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Plasma Photocatalysis: A Novel Approach for Enhanced Air Disinfection in Centralised Ventilation Systems

Materials, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 18(8), P. 1870 - 1870

Published: April 19, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for sustainable and scalable air disinfection technologies in HVAC systems, addressing limitations of energy-intensive chemically intensive conventional methods. This study developed evaluated a pilot experimental installation integrating plasma chemistry photocatalysis airborne pathogen pollutant mitigation. installation, designed with modular architecture to simulate real-world dynamics, employed bipolar ioniser, TiO2 photocatalytic module, an adsorption-catalytic module ozone abatement. Characterization techniques, including SEM BET analysis, were used evaluate morphology surface properties catalytic materials. Field tests production room demonstrated 60% reduction microflora three days, along effective decomposition ozone. research also determined optimal electrode geometry interelectrode distance stable corona discharge, which is essential efficient generation. Energy-efficient design considerations, incorporate heat recovery pump integration, achieved 7–8-fold heating energy consumption. These results demonstrate potential integrated as approach enhance indoor quality centralised contributing both public health efficiency.

Language: Английский

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