Abstract
The raising occurrence of antibiotics in the global water bodies has received the emerging concern due to their potential threats of generating the antibiotic-resistive and genotoxic effects into humans and aquatic species. In this direction, the solar energy assisted photocatalytic technique offers a promising solution to address such emerging concern and paves ways for the complete degradation of antibiotics with the generation of less or non-toxic by-products. Particularly, the designing of hybrid photocatalyticcomposite materials has been found to show higher antibiotics degradation efficiencies. As the hybrid photocatalysts are found as the systems with ideal characteristic properties such as superior structural, surface and interfacial properties, they offer enhanced photoabsorbance, charge-separation, -transfer, redox properties, photostability and easy recovery. In this context, this review study presents an overview on the recent developments in the designing of various hybrid photocatalytic systems and their efficiency towards the degradation of various emerging antibiotic pharmaceutical contaminants in water environments.
Highlights
Academic Editor: Takuya TsuzukiReceived: 28 January 2021Accepted: 22 February 2021Published: 25 February 2021Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Pharmaceutical industry is one of the important and largest industries worldwide and at the same time, a large amount of contaminations is being generated by the pharmaceutical products
The photocatalysis offers a promising solution for the effective degradation techniques, the photocatalysis offers a promising solution for the effective degradation of ofantibiotics antibioticscontaminants contaminants water using solar energy
A three-dimensional hierarchical (3D) BiOI/MIL-88B(Fe) metal organic organic framework (MOF) hybrid nanocomposite was prepared via a simple precipitation framework (MOF) hybrid nanocomposite was prepared via a simple precipitation method method and the composite showed higher solar photocatalytic activity as compared to and the composite showed higher solar photocatalytic activity as compared to the pure the pure BiOI towards the degradation of ciprofloxacin
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. These pharmaceutical products are largely disbursed at high quantities into the environment by purposely and accidentally These pharmaceutical compounds can be found in different environmental compartments such as soil, water surfaces, and even in drinking water. Thevarious variousavailable availabletechniques techniquestotoremove removeand anddegrade degradethe thewater/wastewater water/wastewaterconcontaminating pharmaceutical pollutants include adsorption, microbial degradation, phototaminating pharmaceutical pollutants include adsorption, microbial degradation, photocatalysis, catalysis,ozonolytic, ozonolytic,electrocatalysis electrocatalysisand andmembrane membranefiltration filtrationprocesses processes[3,8] Ofthese these techniques, the photocatalysis offers a promising solution for the effective degradation techniques, the photocatalysis offers a promising solution for the effective degradation of ofantibiotics antibioticscontaminants contaminants water using solar energy [3,9,10,11], where the strong redox inin water using solar energy [3,9,10,11], where the strong redox rereactions of photocatalysis photocatalysis offer offer effective effective mineralization, actions of mineralization, high high degradation degradationefficiency, efficiency,less less byproducts byproductsand/or and/orsimple/non-toxic simple/non-toxic degradation degradationproducts.
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