naa a22 4500 510751857 CHVBK 20180411083107.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11270-013-1565-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11270-013-1565-6 Efficient Photodegradation of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals with Bi2O3-ZnO Nanorods Under a Compact Fluorescent Lamp [Elektronische Daten] [Sze-Mun Lam, Jin-Chung Sin, Ahmad Abdullah, Abdul Mohamed] Nanoscaled Bi2O3 particles coated on ZnO nanorods (ZNRs) have been fabricated by combining hydrothermal technique with a chemical precipitation method. X-ray diffraction, field emission-scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and UV-vis absorption and photoluminescence studies were adapted to characterize the structure, morphologies, and optical properties of the nanocomposites. The results indicated that small Bi2O3 nanoparticles were well distributed on the surfaces of ZNRs. And the Bi2O3-ZNR nanocomposites showed high charge separation efficiency and •OH generation ability as evidenced by photoluminescence spectra. Under irradiation of a 55-W compact fluorescent lamp, the Bi2O3-ZNR nanocomposites demonstrated photocatalytic activities higher than pure ZNRs in the degradation of two endocrine-disrupting chemicals, phenol and methylparaben, which might be attributed to the high separation efficiency of photogenerated electron-hole pairs based on the cooperative role of Bi2O3 loading on ZNRs. Moreover, the Bi2O3-ZNR nanocomposite could be easily recovered and reused due to their one-dimensional nanostructural property. All these characteristics brought enormous benefits of Bi2O3-ZNR nanocomposites to the practical application in indoor environmental remediation. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Zinc oxide nationallicence Bismuth oxide nationallicence Nanocomposite nationallicence Photocatalytic nationallicence Endocrine-disrupting chemical nationallicence Lam Sze-Mun School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia aut Sin Jin-Chung School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia aut Abdullah Ahmad School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia aut Mohamed Abdul School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia aut Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/5(2013-05-01), 1-11 0049-6979 224:5<1 2013 224 11270 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1565-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1565-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lam Sze-Mun School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sin Jin-Chung School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abdullah Ahmad School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mohamed Abdul School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/5(2013-05-01), 1-11 0049-6979 224:5<1 2013 224 11270 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer