BN-TiO2 photocatalytic destruction of PFOA (IMAGE)

Rice University

BN-TiO2 photocatalytic destruction of PFOA

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Illustration showing how a composite material containing sheets of boron nitride (lattice of blue and silver balls) and nanoparticles of titanium dioxide (gray spheres) uses long-wave ultraviolet energy in sunlight to photocatalyse the breakdown of PFOA into carbon dioxide, fluorine and minerals.

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Image courtesy of M.S. Wong/Rice University

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