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bimetallic particles for contaminated site remediation. Adv Water Resour 51:104–122. https://
doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.02.005
Oh SM, Kim SS, Lee JE, Ishigaki T, Park DW (2003) Effect of additives on photocatalytic activity
of titanium dioxide powders synthesized by thermal plasma. Thin Solid Films 435:252–258.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-6090(03)00388-2
Ohsaka T, Shinozaki K, Tsuruta K, Hirano K (2008) Photo electrochemical degradation of some
chlorinated organic compounds on n-TiO 2 electrode. Chemosphere 73(8):1279–1283. https://
doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.07.016
Oliveira LCA, Petkowicz DI, Smaniotto A, Pergher SBC (2004) Magnetic zeolites: a new adsorbent
for removal of metallic contaminants from water. Water Res 38:699–704. https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.watres.2004.06.008
Onyango MS, Kojima Y, Matsuda H, Ochieng A (2003) Adsorption kinetics of arsenic removal
from groundwater by iron-modified zeolite. J Chem Eng Jpn 36:1516–1522. https://doi.org/10.
1252/jcej.36.1516
Oyanedel-Craver VA, Smith JA (2008) Sustainable colloidal silver-impregnated ceramic filter for
point-of-use water treatment. Environ Sci Technol 42(3):927–933. https://doi.org/10.1021/
es071268u
Pant HR, Park CH, Pant B, Tijing LD, Kim HY, Kim CS (2012) Synthesis, characterization,
and photocatalytic properties of ZnO nano-flower containing TiO 2 NPs. Ceram Int
38(4):2943–2950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2011.11.071
Pantapasis K, Grumezescu AM (2017) 13-Gold nanoparticles: advances in water purification
process. In: Water purification, pp 447–477. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804300-4.
00013-7
Pare B, Singh P, Jonnalgadda SB (2009) Degradation and mineralization of Victoria blue B dye in a
slurry photoreactor using advanced oxidation process. J Sci Ind Res 68:724–729
Pathania D, Katwal R, Kaur H (2016) Enhanced photocatalytic activity of electrochemically
synthesized aluminium oxide nanoparticles. Int J Miner Metall Mater 23(3):358. https://doi.
org/10.1007/s12613-016-1245-9
Pelaez M, Nolan NT, Pillai SC, Seery MK, Falaras P, Kontos AG et al (2012) A review on the
visible light active TiO 2 photocatalysts for environmental applications. Appl Catal B Environ
125:331–349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2012.05.036
Peng XJ, Luan ZK, Ding J, Di ZC, Li YH, Tian BH (2005) Ceria nanoparticles supported nanotubes
for the removal of arsenate from water. Mater Lett 59:399–403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.
2004.05.090
Pereira L, Alves M (2012) In: Malik A, Grohmann E (eds) Environmental protection strategies for
sustainable development, vol 4. Springer, New York, pp 111–162. ISBN 978-94-007-1591-2
Perreault F, Faria FDA, Elimelech M (2015) Environmental applications of graphene- based
nanomaterials. Chem Soc Rev 44:5861–5896. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CS00021A
Petala E, Georgiou Y, Kostas V, Dimos K, Karakassides MA, Deligiannakis Y, Aparicio C, Zboril
JTR (2017) Magnetic carbon nanocages: an advanced architecture with surface-and morphology-enhanced removal capacity for arsenites. ACS Sustain Chem Eng 5(7):5782–5792. https://
doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b00394
Pozan GS, Kambur A (2013) Removal of 4-chlorophenol from wastewater: preparation, characterization and photocatalytic activity of alkaline earth oxide doped TiO 2 . Appl Catal B Environ
129:409–415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2012.09.050
Prince JA, Bhuvana S, Anbharasi V, Ayyanar N, Boodhoo KVK, Singh G (2014) Self-cleaning
Metal Organic Framework (MOF) based ultra-filtration membranes – a solution to bio-fouling in
membrane separation processes. Sci Rep 4:6555–6555. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06555
Qiu X, Li G, Sun X, Li L, Fu X (2008) Doping effects of Co(2+) ions on ZnO nanorods and their
photocatalytic properties. Nanotechnology 19:215703–215710. https://doi.org/10.1088/09574484/19/21/215703
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