title: Recent advances in photocatalytic treatment of pollutants in aqueous media.
abstract: Photocatalysis can be an excellent solution for resolving the world's energy and environmental problems. It has a wide range of applications for the decontamination of diverse hazardous pollutants in aqueous media. Technological progress in this research field has been achieved toward the improvement of the solar sensitivity to enhance the efficiency of pollutant decontamination. As a result, various strategies have been introduced to upgrade photocatalytic performance with the modification of prototypical photocatalyst such as doping, dye sensitization, semiconductor coupling, mesoporous supports, single site, and nano-based catalysts. In this review, a brief survey is presented to describe those strategies based on the evaluation made against various pollutants (such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, heavy metals, detergents, and dyes) in aqueous media.
authors.affiliation: Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Tarnaka, Hyderabad, Telangana 500076, India.
authors.forename: P Anil Kumar
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: Program in Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, TX 799038, USA.
authors.forename: P Venkata Laxma
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Eilhann
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, 222, Wangsimni-Ro, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: kkim61@hanyang.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Ki-Hyun
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.
authors.forename: Tahmina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akter
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.
authors.forename: Sudhakar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalagara
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D008027:Light; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry*; D018508:Water Purification / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
keywords: Hazardous; Photocatalysis; Pollutants; Water decontamination