Karuppannan Rokesh1, Mohan Sakar1,2, Trong-On Do1. 1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, QC G1V 0A8, Canada. 2. Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain University, Bangalore 562112, Karnataka, India.
Abstract
The raising occurrence of antibiotics in the global water bodies has received the emerging concern due to their potential threats of generating the antibiotic-resistive and genotoxic effects into humans and aquatic species. In this direction, the solar energy assisted photocatalytic technique offers a promising solution to address such emerging concern and paves ways for the complete degradation of antibiotics with the generation of less or non-toxic by-products. Particularly, the designing of hybrid photocatalyticcomposite materials has been found to show higher antibiotics degradation efficiencies. As the hybrid photocatalysts are found as the systems with ideal characteristic properties such as superior structural, surface and interfacial properties, they offer enhanced photoabsorbance, charge-separation, -transfer, redox properties, photostability and easy recovery. In this context, this review study presents an overview on the recent developments in the designing of various hybrid photocatalytic systems and their efficiency towards the degradation of various emerging antibiotic pharmaceutical contaminants in water environments.
The raising opan class="Chemical">cn>an class="Chemical">currence of antibiotics in the globalwater bodies has received the emerging concern due to their potential threats of generating the antibiotic-resistive and genotoxic effects into humans and aquatic species. In this direction, the solar energy assisted photocatalytic technique offers a promising solution to address such emerging concern and paves ways for the complete degradation of antibiotics with the generation of less or non-toxic by-products. Particularly, the designing of hybrid photocatalyticcomposite materials has been found to show higher antibiotics degradation efficiencies. As the hybrid photocatalysts are found as the systems with idealcharacteristic properties such as superior structural, surface and interfacial properties, they offer enhanced photoabsorbance, charge-separation, -transfer, redox properties, photostability and easy recovery. In this context, this review study presents an overview on the recent developments in the designing of various hybrid photocatalytic systems and their efficiency towards the degradation of various emerging antibiotic pharmaceuticalcontaminants in water environments.
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Keywords:
antibiotics; contaminants of emerging concerns; degradation; hybrids; nanocomposites; photocatalyst
Authors: María P C Mora-Gamboa; Sandra M Rincón-Gamboa; Leidy D Ardila-Leal; Raúl A Poutou-Piñales; Aura M Pedroza-Rodríguez; Balkys E Quevedo-Hidalgo Journal: Molecules Date: 2022-07-11 Impact factor: 4.927