Facile method for surface etching of silica aerogel monoliths |
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| Authors: | Ioannis?Michalous Mary?K?Carroll Samuel?Kupiec Kian?Cook Ann?M?Anderson |
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| Institution: | 1.Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS,Prague 6,Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: | Degradation of three different endocrine disruptors (EDs) was thoroughly studied on prepared durable thin layers of titanium dioxide with an anatase crystalline structure. Specially constructed laboratory reactors bringing information on all individual processes (photolysis, photocatalysis, sorption) involved in decomposition of the studied EDs (17α-ethynylestradiol, bisphenol A and 4-nonylphenol) were applied. It was found that photolytic removal of EDs is the fastest degradation process; nevertheless, this method may be less effective regarding all indicators including toxicity. It was verified that individual degradation processes (photolysis and photocatalysis) showed a significantly different influence on toxicity of resulting solutions. During the photolytic process, EDs degradation caused increasing toxicity contrary to the photocatalytic process. Obtained results were corroborated by a mathematical model, which showed that a limitation step for photocatalysis is a sorption and for photolysis a toxicity of resulting products. | |
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