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Table 2
Summary of ferrite materials used as photocatalyst for water treatment
Catalyst
Method of synthesis
Pollutant
Conversion
Advantages
Disadvantages
References
ZnSm x
Fe
2–x O
4
Co-precipitation
Methyl orange (MO) 92% MO (80 min)
Rashmi et al. [21]
CuS/BiFeO
3
Two-step
Alachlor
90% alachlor removed
(60 min)
Bhoi and Mishra [92]
LaFeO
3 /SnS
2
Hydrothermal method Tetracycline
Better rates with 10%
LaFeO
3 ; Z-scheme
Luo et al. [40]
LaFeO
3 /AgBr
Precipitation
Dye, methyl orange
Better photoactivity
No complete degradation
Song et al. [90]
LaFeO
3 /montmorillonite
Assembling sol–gel
Rhodamine B
100% rhodamine
removed (75 min)
Peng et al. [29]
ZnFe
2 O
4 /PMS (peroxymonosulfate)
Soft chemical process Orange II
Total removal
(90 min)
Zhu et al. [93]
TiO
2 /CoFe
2 O
4
Two-spinneret electrospinning
Phenol
20% phenol removed
(210 min)
Li et al. [94]
Zn x
Fe
3–x O
4
Soft chemical route
Dye Acid Blue 113;
disinfection
92% of dye removal;
synergetic effect
with H
2 O
2
Mandal et al. [95]
TiO
2 @Mn-Zn ferrite Sol–gel hydrolysis
precipitation.
Methylene blue
Complete removal
(360 min)
Chen et al. [96]
BiFeO
3 /ozone
Thermal decomposition
Oxalic acid
80% degradation
(60 min)
Improved mineralization by processes
combination
Liao et al. [39]
Cu
0.25 Fe
2.75 O
4
Co-precipitation,
mechanochemical and/or thermal
treatment
Malachite green
Better activity than
P25 TiO
2
Zaharieva et al. [85]
La-doped BiFeO
3
Sol–gel method
Phenol removal
Complete phenolic
removal with 15%
La (180 min)
Meng et al. [97]
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