Enhanced visible-light photodegradation of fluoroquinolone-based antibiotics and <i>E. coli</i> growth inhibition using Ag-TiO₂ nanoparticles

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989100:27740/21:10247365

Result on the web

<a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ra/d0ra10403e" target="_blank" >https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ra/d0ra10403e</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ra10403e" target="_blank" >10.1039/d0ra10403e</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enhanced visible-light photodegradation of fluoroquinolone-based antibiotics and <i>E. coli</i> growth inhibition using Ag-TiO₂ nanoparticles

Original language description

Antibiotics in wastewater represent a growing and worrying menace for environmental and human health fostering the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a well-studied and well-performing photocatalyst for wastewater treatment. However, it presents drawbacks linked with the high energy needed for its activation and the fast electron-hole pair recombination. In this work, TiO2 nanoparticles were decorated with Ag nanoparticles by a facile photochemical reduction method to obtain an increased photocatalytic response under visible light. Although similar materials have been reported, we advanced this field by performing a study of the photocatalytic mechanism for Ag-TiO2 nanoparticles (Ag-TiO2 NPs) under visible light taking in consideration also the rutile phase of the TiO2 nanoparticles. Moreover, we examined the Ag-TiO2 NPs photocatalytic performance against two antibiotics from the same family. The obtained Ag-TiO2 NPs were fully characterised. The results showed that Ag NPs (average size: 23.9 +- 18.3 nm) were very finely and homogeneously dispersed on the TiO2 surface and the photo-response of the Ag-TiO2 NPs was greatly enhanced in the visible light region when compared to TiO2 P25. Hence, the obtained Ag-TiO2 NPs showed excellent photocatalytic degradation efficiency towards the two fluoroquinolone-based antibiotics ciprofloxacin (91%) and norfloxacin (92%) after 240 min under visible light irradiation demonstrating a possible application of these particles in wastewater treatment. In addition, it was also proved that after five Ag-TiO2 NPs re-utilisations in consecutive ciprofloxacin photodegradation reactions, only a photocatalytic efficiency drop of 8% was observed. Scavengers experiments were performed, and it was demonstrated that the photocatalytic mechanism of ciprofloxacin degradation in the presence of Ag-TiO2 NPs is mainly driven by holes and .OH radicals and that the rutile phase in the system plays a crucial role. Finally, Ag-TiO2 NPs showed also antibacterial activity towards Escherichia coli (E. coli) opening the avenue for a possible use of this material in hospitals wastewater treatment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

21001 - Nano-materials (production and properties)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

RSC Advances

ISSN

2046-2069

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

23

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

13980-13991

UT code for WoS article

000641127700034

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85104356668