Surface Modification of TiO₂ Nanorods for Dye Removal: Photodegradation vs Adsorption Activity.

ABSTRACT: Colloidal titanium dioxide nanoparticles (NPs) represent a versatile class of semiconductors due to their tunable morphologies and organic shell formulations via the tools offered by synthetic nanochemistry. While largely exploited to remove industrial pigments from wastewater, scarce attention has been thus far devoted to modulating and rationalizing the different capacities of TiO₂-based NPs in photodegradation and adsorption processes, posing the different dye structures in relation to the surface chemistry and morphology of the relevant semiconductor. This study aims at effectively understanding the potentialities and limits of surface modification in TiO₂ nanorods (NRs) for dye removal from wastewater by adsorbing or photodegradation pathways. The NRs are initial

SUBMITTER: Lo Porto C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12613128 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature