Photoelectrocatalytic degradation of atrazine by boron-fluorine co-doped TiO nanotube arrays.

Atrazine, one of the most widespread herbicides in the world, is considered as an environmental estrogen and has potential carcinogenicity. In this study, atrazine was degraded on boron-fluorine co-doped TiO nanotube arrays (B, F-TiO NTAs), which had similar morphology with the pristine TiO NTAs. The structure and morphology of TiO nanotube samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS).