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Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water Using Graphene Oxide Composite

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Developing sustainable and less-expensive technique is always challenging task in water treatment process. This chapter explores the recent development of photocatalysis technique in organic pollutant removal from the water. Particularly, advantages of graphene oxide in promoting the catalytic performance of semiconductor, metal nanoparticle and polymer based photocatalyst materials. Owing to high internal surface area and rapid electron conducting property of graphene oxide fostering as backbone scaffold for effective hetero-photocatalyst loading, and rapid photo-charge separation enables effective degradation of pollutant. This chapter summaries the recent development of graphene oxide composite (metal oxide, metal nanoparticle, metal chalcogenides, and polymers) in semiconductor photocatalysis process towards environmental remediation application.

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This work is supported by Sêr Cymru II-Rising Star Fellowship program through Welsh Government and European Regional Development Fund.

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  1. School of Basic Sciences and Advanced Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand, Mandi, 175005, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Suneel Kumar & Venkata Krishnan

  2. Photocatalysis International Research Center, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan

    Chiaki Terashima & Akira Fujishima

  3. Multi-functional Photocatalyst & Coatings Group, SPECIFIC, College of Engineering, Swansea University (Bay Campus), Swansea, SA1 8EN, Wales, UK

    Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu

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Kumar, S., Terashima, C., Fujishima, A., Krishnan, V., Pitchaimuthu, S. (2019). Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water Using Graphene Oxide Composite. In: Naushad, M. (eds) A New Generation Material Graphene: Applications in Water Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75484-0_17

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