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Antioxidant Assay Based on Quenching of Photocatalytically Generated Reactive Oxygen Species

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This study presents the accelerated discoloration/degradation of methylene blue (MB) in solution by Fenton reagent under exposure to ultraviolet (UV) or Vacuum-UV/UV (VUV/UV) light in an innovative micro photo-reactor. The MB degradation was kinetically fa ...

Elsevier2016

Pro-oxidant effects of nano-TiO2 on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii during short-term exposure

Paul Bowen, Christian Santschi, Olivier Martin, Lionel André Maurizi, Volodymyr Koman, Nadia Rachel Von Moos, Amarnath Jayaprakash

This study sheds light on the short-term dynamics of pro-oxidant processes related to the exposure of C. reinhardtii microalgae to nano-TiO2 using (a) conventional fluorescence probes for cellular pro-oxidant process and (b) a recently developed cytochrome ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Insight on the photocatalytic bacterial inactivation by co-sputtered TiO2-Cu in aerobic and anaerobic conditions

Michaël Bensimon, Juan Kiwi, César Pulgarin, Rosendo Sanjines, Sami Rtimi, Stefanos Giannakis

Co-sputtered TiO2-Cu polyester (TiO2-Cu-PES) under actinic light induced bacterial reduction of E. coli in the presence of O2 (air) and under anaerobic conditions. The bacterial inactivation/oxidation proceeds in the absence of O2 (air) probably due to the ...

Elsevier2016

Preparation, kinetics, mechanism and properties of semi-transparent photocatalytic stable films active in dye degradation

Juan Kiwi, César Pulgarin, Christophe Roussel, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

The photocatalytic activity, mechanism and characterization of polyethylene-TiO2 films (PE-TiO2) during the discoloration/degradation of methylene blue (MB) are reported in this study. PE-TiO2 films were prepared at moderate temperatures (similar to 90 deg ...

Elsevier2016

Iron-oxides and iron-citrate as new photocatalysts in solar inactivation of Escherichia coli in water : mechanistic aspects

Cristina del Socorro Lonfat

This study addresses the bacterial inactivation mechanism by photo-Fenton process at near-neutral pH, focusing on iron-oxides and iron-citrate as photocatalysts for solar water disinfection and using E. coli as a bacteria model. Cell envelope damage during ...

EPFL2015

Photosensitizing and Inhibitory Effects of Ozonated Dissolved Organic Matter on Triplet-Induced Contaminant Transformation

Silvio Canonica, Urs von Gunten

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is both a promoter and an inhibitor of triplet-induced organic contaminant oxidation. This dual role was systematically investigated through photochemical experiments with three types of DOM of terrestrial and aquatic origins ...

American Chemical Society2015

RF-plasma pretreatment of surfaces leading to TiO2 coatings with improved optical absorption and OH-radical production

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Evidence is presented for the RF pretreatment of polyester enhances the TiO2 coating generation of oxidative species/radicals under a low level actinic light irradiation. After 30 min RF-plasma pretreatment of the polyester samples, the fastest bacterial i ...

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Antioxidant Promotion of Tyrosine Nitration in the Presence of Copper(II)

Hubert Girault, Liang Qiao

Copper(II) is known to catalyze the generation of reactive nitrogen species in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, nitrite or nitric oxide, leading to tyrosine nitration, a biomarker for free radical species associated diseases. Here, we find that biologica ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

The detrimental influence of bacteria (E. coli, Shigella and Salmonella) on the degradation of organic compounds (and vice versa) in TiO2 photocatalysis and near-neutral photo-Fenton processes under simulated solar light

César Pulgarin

TiO2 photocatalytic and near-neutral photo-Fenton processes were tested under simulated solar light to degrade two models of natural organic matter -resorcinol (R) (which should interact strongly with TiO2 surfaces) and hydroquinone (H) -separately or in t ...

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Efficiency and energy requirements for the transformation of organic micropollutants by ozone, O3/H2O2 and UV/H2O2

Silvio Canonica, Urs von Gunten

The energy consumptions of conventional ozonation and the AOPs O3/H2O2 and UV/H2O2 for transformation of organic micropollutants, namely atrazine (ATR), sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) were compared. Three lake waters and a wastewa ...

Elsevier2011