Study of Photodegradation of Bentazon Herbicide by Using ZnO-Sm2O3 Nanocomposite Under UV Light
Sadaf Yasmeen, Luca Burratti, Leonardo Duranti, Antonio Agresti, Paolo Prosposito · 2026
Read Study of Photodegradation of Bentazon Herbicide by Using ZnO-Sm2O3 Nanocomposite Under UV Light by Sadaf Yasmeen, Luca Burratti, Leonardo Duranti, Antonio Agresti, Paolo Prosposito (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11677673.txt.
Description
Sadaf Yasmeen and co-authors destroy a weed killer with light-activated powder in a study the journal published in 2024. Bentazon herbicide lingers in water and harms ecosystems. The team cooked up zinc oxide and samarium oxide particles, plus a combined composite of the two, by a precipitation route. Mixing the oxides shrank the energy gap light must cross, so the composite drinks light from ultraviolet toward daylight.
Under ultraviolet lamps for 140 minutes, the composite degraded the herbicide fastest, ahead of zinc oxide alone, with samarium oxide last. A narrower gap means more of the light becomes chemically useful. Photocatalysis of this kind could clean farm runoff without added chemicals. The ranking gives materials designers a clear next step.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sadaf Yasmeen, Luca Burratti, Leonardo Duranti, Antonio Agresti, Paolo Prosposito |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |