BiOxCly/BiOmBrn/BiOpIq/GO quaternary composites: Syntheses and application of visible-light-driven photocatalytic activities.

Herein, the preparation of numerous bismuth oxychloride/bismuth oxybromide/bismuth oxyiodide/graphene oxide (BiOxCly/BiOmBrn/BiOpIq/GO) composites is reported. A facile hydrothermal method was employed to synthesize these photocatalysts, which had various GO contents. A total of 10 bismuth-oxyhalide composites were isolated and characterized using FE-SEM, XRD, FE-TEM, UV-Vis-DRS, FT-IR, EPR, HR-XPS, PL, and BET. The photocatalytic efficiencies of these 10 bismuth-oxyhalide composites were measured under visible-light irradiation by estimating the concentration of 2-hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA) degradation. The findings indicated that the rate constant order of the HBA degradations was BiOCl/BiOBr/BiOI/GO > Bi3O4Cl/Bi3O4Br/Bi4O5I2/GO > Bi12O17Cl2/Bi3O4Cl/Bi12O17Br2/ Bi7O9I3/GO > Bi12O17Cl2/BiOBr/BiOI/GO > Bi12O17Cl2/Bi12O17Br2/Bi7O9I3/Bi5O7I/GO > Bi3O4Cl/BiOBr/Bi3O4Br/Bi4O5I2 > Bi3O4Cl/BiOBr/BiOI > BiOCl/BiOBr/BiOI > Bi12O17Cl2/Bi5O7Br/Bi5O7I > GO. A maximum rate constant of 0.191 h-1 was reached for BiOCl/BiOBr/BiOI/GO, providing photocatalytic efficiency that was eight times higher than that of composite BiOCl/BiOBr/BiOI. We also proposed a photocatalytic mechanism demonstrating that O2-, h±, OH, and 1O2 are all essential for HBA degradation.

Mechanistic pathways differences between P25-TiO(2) and Pt-TiO(2) mediated CV photodegradation.

The Crystal Violet (CV) dye represented one of the major triphenylmethane dyes used in textile-processing and some other industrial processes. Various metals doped titanium dioxide (TiO(2)) photocatalysts have been studied intensively for the photodegradation of dye in wastewater treatment. In order to understand the mechanistic detail of the metal dosage on the activities enhancement of the TiO(2) based photocatalyst, this study investigated the CV photodegradation reactions under UV light irradiation using a Pt modified TiO(2) photocatalyst. The results showed that Pt-TiO(2) with 5.8% (W/W) Pt dosage yielded optimum photocatalytic activity. Also the effect of pH value on the CV degradation was well assessed for their product distributions. The degradation products and intermediates were separated and characterized by HPLC-ESI-MS and GC-MS techniques. The results indicated that both the N-de-methylation reaction and the oxidative cleavage reaction of conjugated chromophore structure occurred, but with significantly different intermediates distribution implying that Pt doped TiO(2) facilitate different degradation pathways compared to the P25-TiO(2) system.

A label-free differential proteomic analysis of mouse bronchoalveolar lavage fluid exposed to ultrafine carbon black.

Ultrafine carbon black (ufCB) is a potential hazard to the lung. It causes changes in protein expression and it increases alveolar-capillary permeability in the lung. Label-free quantitative proteomic methods allow a sensitive and accurate analytical method for identifying and quantifying proteins in a protein mixture without chemically modifying the proteins. We used a label-free quantitative proteomic approach that combined and aligned LC-MS and LC-MS/MS spectra to analyze mouse bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) protein changes associated with exposure to ufCB. We developed a simple normalization method for quantification without spiking the internal standard. The intensities of unchanged peptides were used as normalization factors based on a statistical method to avoid the influence of peptides changed because of ufCB. LC-MS/MS spectra and then database searching were used to identify proteins. The relative abundances of the aligned peptides of identified proteins were determined using LC-MS spectra. We identified 132 proteins, of which 77 are reported for the first time. In addition, the expression of 15 inflammatory proteins and surfactant-associated proteins was regulated (i.e., 7 upregulated and 8 downregulated) compared with the controls. Several proteins not previously reported provide complementary information on the proteins present in mouse BALF, and they are potential biomarkers for the understanding of mechanisms involved in ufCB-induced lung disorders hypothesize that using the label-free quantitative proteomic approach introduced here is well suited for more rigorous, large-scale quantitative analysis of biological samples. We hypothesize that this label-free quantitative proteomic approach will be suited for a large-scale quantitative analysis of biological samples.

Fabrication of porous TiO2 film on Ti foil by hydrothermal process and its photocatalytic efficiency and mechanisms with ethyl violet dye.

Most of commercial dyes and pigments have rather complicated polyaromatic chemical structures with prolonged lifetime surviving in the Mother Nature. However, TiO(2) has been reported as one of the best photocatalytic candidates for degrading dye pollutants. In this report, TiO(2) film/Ti foil was prepared by hydrothermal reaction in alkali solution, the porous TiO(2) film with microcrystalline structure has been obtained. The porous structure of TiO(2) film was analyzed and characterized by XRD, FE-SEM and XPS. This is the first report that demonstrates that TiO(2) film/Ti foil has an excellent commercial application potential for photocatalytic degradation of Ethyl Violet (EV). Especially, because of refluxing at 100 degrees C, the porous TiO(2) film structure remained undisturbed, and EV decomposed in the period of 20 h. In addition, porous TiO(2)-mediated EV photo degradation mechanism has been proposed, as intermediates are isolated and clearly identified by GC-MS and HPLC-PDA-ESI-MS.