Funder

Ronald E. McNair Scholars Summer Research Institute; Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

Fall 9-20-2018

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach

Publisher Location

Las Vegas (Nev.)

Abstract

• Environmental issues continue to intensify causing natural resources such as clean water to become increasingly scarce while demand only continues to grow. • Some of the most effective measures taken appear to be bioremediation tactics and their synthetic counterparts. • A critical area of interest are semi-conducting photocatalytic nanomaterials that take advantage of the photo-electric effect and use the introduction of ultra violet (UV) and visible light to induce oxidation and reduction reaction in p-type semiconductors. This results in the decomposition of certain pollutants and/or deactivates certain microbes in water. • These materials have the potential to operate using only light emitted from the sun, thus being free from the need for an external bias.

Keywords

Photocatalyst; Water treatment; Bi2MoO6; Ag3PO4

Disciplines

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering | Other Engineering Science and Materials | Other Materials Science and Engineering | Semiconductor and Optical Materials

File Format

pdf

File Size

978 KB

Language

English

Rights

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