Potential Development of Porous Carbon Composites Generated from the Biomass for Energy Storage Applications.

Creating an innovative and environmentally friendly energy storage system is of vital importance due to the growing number of environmental problems and the fast exhaustion of fossil fuels. Energy storage using porous carbon composites generated from biomass has attracted a lot of attention in the research community. This is primarily due to the environmentally friendly nature, abundant availability in nature, accessibility, affordability, and long-term viability of macro/meso/microporous carbon sourced from a variety of biological materials.

Transition metal doped CeO for photocatalytic removal of 2-chlorophenol in the exposure of indoor white light and antifungal activity.

Besides natural sunlight and expensive artificial lights, economical indoor white light can play a significant role in activating a catalyst for photocatalytic removal of organic toxins from contaminated water. In the current effort, CeO has been modified with Ni, Cu, and Fe through doping methodology to study the removal of 2-chlorophenol (2-CP) in the illumination of 70 W indoor LED white light. The absence of additional diffractions due to the dopants and few changes such as reduction in peaks' height, minor peak shift at 2θ (28.

Photocatalytic removal of imidacloprid containing frequently applied insecticide in agriculture industry using CoO modified MoO composites.

Water pollution caused by the frequent utilization of pesticides in the agriculture industry is one of the major environmental concerns that require proper attention. In this context, the photocatalytic removal of pesticides from contaminated water in the presence of metallic oxide photocatalysts is quite in approach. In the present study, Orthorhombic MoO has been modified with varying amount of cobalt oxide through wet impregnation for the removal of imidacloprid and imidacloprid-containing commercially available insecticide.

The efficacy of CoO loaded WO sheets for the enhanced photocatalytic removal of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol in natural sunlight exposure.

Owing to the promising photocatalytic performance, the sheet-like WO was modified by depositing nanostructured CoO at the surface. The appearance of the varying dual absorption edges in the optical analysis exposed the composite nature of the synthesized materials. The structural analysis revealed the deposition of CoO particles at the surface without altering the lattice of WO however, during the processing the cracking of disc was also evidenced.

Evaluation of SnO for sunlight photocatalytic decontamination of water.

The broad bandgap tin (IV) oxide (SnO) is the least investigated semiconductor material for photocatalytic water decontamination in sunlight exposure. A detailed study covering the synthesis, characterization and the evaluation of photocatalytic activity of SnO, in the natural sunlight exposure, is presented. The structural characterization by XRD revealed the formation of phase pure tetragonal SnO with the average crystallite size of ∼41.

Synthesis, Characterization, and Sunlight Mediated Photocatalytic Activity of CuO Coated ZnO for the Removal of Nitrophenols.

CuO@ZnO core-shell catalysts, coated by varying the CuO layer density ranging from 0.5% to 10%, were synthesized with the aim to enhance the photocatalytic activity of ZnO in sunlight and control its photocorrosion. Initially, the Cu(2+) ions were impregnated on presynthesized ZnO by wet impregnation and finally converted to CuO layers by calcination.

Evaluation of sunlight induced structural changes and their effect on the photocatalytic activity of V2O5 for the degradation of phenols.

Despite knowing the fact that vanadium pentoxide is slightly soluble in aqueous medium, its photocatalytic activity was evaluated for the degradation of phenol and its derivatives (2-hydroxyphenol, 2-chlorophenol, 2-aminophenol and 2-nitrophenol) in natural sunlight exposure. The prime objective of the study was to differentiate between the homogeneous and heterogeneous photocatalysis incurred by dissolved and undissolved V2O5 in natural sunlight exposure. V2O5 was synthesized by chemical precipitation procedure using Triton X-100 as morphology mediator and characterized by DRS, PLS, Raman, FESEM and XRD.