TY - JOUR
T1 - On the improvement of visible-responsive photodegradation through artificial cilia
AU - Lu, Chang Hung
AU - Tang, Chien Hsin
AU - Ghayal, Neha
AU - Panigrahi, Bivas
AU - Chen, Chia Yuan
AU - Chen, Chia Yun
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported through the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under Contract No. MOST 105-2628-E-006-006-MY3 and 107-2221-E-006 -128 -MY3 (to Chia-Yuan Chen), No. MOST 107-2221-E-006-013-MY3 (to Chia-Yun Chen) and Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials (Hi-GEM) Research Center, from The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan. This work would not be possible without the facility provided by Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology, National Cheng Kung University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Photocatalysts as a semiconductor material are widely used in the field of water and environment cleaning applications as it equips with favorite features such as chemical and physical stability, easy availability, inexpensive, and non-toxic in nature. Additionally, photocatalysts can convert the light energy of the irradiation into the chemical energy of the electron-hole pairs. Most commonly used TiO2 can function as the efficient photocatalysts in the presence of light. However it is a material which majorly requires UV light for its activation, and it is not practically being useful. In this aspect, the proposed study demonstrated that with a combination of SnFe2O4 nanoparticles with magnetic artificial cilia, a highly efficient catalytic activity can be achieved under the visible light due to the rapid and uniform mixing within the microfluidic device with least energy budget. To identify the optimal advanced oxidation process using the selected photocatalyst running with the microfluidics, a micro-particle image velocimetry analysis was carried out through three modes of artificial cilia rotation. The study also determined the evolution curves of the degradation rate with respect to time for all of three modes of cilia rotation, and a superior performance was achieved with a maximum degradation rate of 81.7% in 60 min using the presented design concept.
AB - Photocatalysts as a semiconductor material are widely used in the field of water and environment cleaning applications as it equips with favorite features such as chemical and physical stability, easy availability, inexpensive, and non-toxic in nature. Additionally, photocatalysts can convert the light energy of the irradiation into the chemical energy of the electron-hole pairs. Most commonly used TiO2 can function as the efficient photocatalysts in the presence of light. However it is a material which majorly requires UV light for its activation, and it is not practically being useful. In this aspect, the proposed study demonstrated that with a combination of SnFe2O4 nanoparticles with magnetic artificial cilia, a highly efficient catalytic activity can be achieved under the visible light due to the rapid and uniform mixing within the microfluidic device with least energy budget. To identify the optimal advanced oxidation process using the selected photocatalyst running with the microfluidics, a micro-particle image velocimetry analysis was carried out through three modes of artificial cilia rotation. The study also determined the evolution curves of the degradation rate with respect to time for all of three modes of cilia rotation, and a superior performance was achieved with a maximum degradation rate of 81.7% in 60 min using the presented design concept.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.sna.2018.10.045
DO - 10.1016/j.sna.2018.10.045
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85056944805
VL - 285
SP - 234
EP - 240
JO - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
JF - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
SN - 0924-4247
ER -