Enhanced Photocatalysis over SrTiO3 Nanoparticles Modified with Highly Dispersed Nickel Species
Yanlong Gao, Hongfei Wu, Senwei Wu, Xinhong Chu, Xiujian Zhao, Gopinathan Sankar, Shouqin Tian · 2026
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Description
Yanlong Gao and co-authors sprinkle nickel over a strontium titanate powder to make a better light-driven cleaner for textile wastewater. Dyes such as methylene blue resist breakdown and stain water far downstream. Sunlight-powered catalysts could destroy them, but common ones waste much of the light.
The nickel was spread finely by heating in ammonia gas from a decomposing salt. Loading was dialed by the strength of the nickel soak. At half a percent nickel, the powder destroyed the dye fully in seventy-five minutes under a lab lamp. Its rate ran over three times the plain powder's. Charge separation likely explains the gain. Cheap boosts to known catalysts matter at plant scale.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yanlong Gao, Hongfei Wu, Senwei Wu, Xinhong Chu, Xiujian Zhao, Gopinathan Sankar, Shouqin Tian |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |