Constructing magnetic and high-efficiency AgI/CuFeO photocatalysts for inactivation of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus under visible light: Inactivation performance and mechanism analysis.

Magnetic materials usually exhibit advanced performance in many areas for their easy separating and recycle ability. In this study, silver iodide/copper ferrite (AgI/CuFeO) catalysts with excellent magnetic property were successfully synthesized and characterized by a series of techniques. Two typical bacteria Escherichia coli (E.

Fabrication of visible-light-driven silver iodide modified iodine-deficient bismuth oxyiodides Z-scheme heterojunctions with enhanced photocatalytic activity for Escherichia coli inactivation and tetracycline degradation.

At present, various organic pollutants and pathogenic microorganisms presented in wastewater have severely threatened aquatic ecosystem and human health. Meanwhile, semiconductor photocatalysis technology for water purification has attracted increasingly significant attention. Herein, we successfully constructed a series of novel visible-light-driven (VLD) BiOI/AgI hybrid photocatalysts with different AgI amounts.

Construction of highly efficient and stable ternary AgBr/Ag/PbBiOBr Z-scheme photocatalyst under visible light irradiation: Performance and mechanism insight.

In this work, the novel ternary AgBr/Ag/PbBiOBr Z-scheme photocatalysts were synthesized via a CTAB-assisted calcination process. The AgBr/Ag/PbBiOBr composites were employed for the degradation of rhodamine B (RhB) and antibiotic bisphenol A (BPA) under visible light irradiation. Results showed that the obtained AgBr/Ag-3/PbBiOBr displayed optimal photocatalytic performance, which could remove almost all RhB within 25 min and effectively decompose 82.

Enhanced Escherichia coli inactivation and oxytetracycline hydrochloride degradation by a Z-scheme silver iodide decorated bismuth vanadate nanocomposite under visible light irradiation.

Novel Z-scheme AgI/BiVO photocatalysts were fabricated by a chemical deposition-precipitation approach. The photocatalytic activities of the obtained catalysts were evaluated by disinfection of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and degradation of oxytetracycline hydrochloride (OTC-HCl) under visible-light irradiation.