Facile synthesis of chitosan membranes for visible-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline hydrochloride.

ABSTRACT: Due to the film-forming ability of polymers, a variety of photocatalytic membranes (PMs) based on polymers easily being separated and reused have been constructed for wastewater contaminant treatment. During their construction processes, chitosan (CS) as a bio-polymer with its distinct merits of abundant resources, low-cost and environmental-friendliness, as well as formability and ease of modification, has attracted great attention. However, the role of CS was mostly believed to be just a support or an adsorbent for fixing or dispersing photocatalysts. Whether CS possessed photocatalytic activity or not still remained vague. Herein, in this work, CS membranes (CSM) were facilely prepared for photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline hydrochloride (TC, a model organic pollutant) in aqueou

SUBMITTER: Liang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058559 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature