Design and fabrication of hybridized nanophotocatalyst for waste water treatment using natural sunlight.

Sustainable method of treating waste water is one of the major issues across the world. Different techniques have been developed by various scientific communities but each possess some limitations. So, keeping in the mind of these major limitations such as high cost , external power source requirement, huge setups , non recyclable etc, design of novel solar light driven nanomaterials are proposed. Since, the use of solar energy is only ~5% in the water industry which needs to be further extend more by using solar driven nanomaterial for water treatment. Thus, our proposed research direct towards to harvest full solar spectrum (UV-Vis-NIR). Hence, the idea for developing novel hybrid nanophotocatalyst for getting the desired properties in a single composite WS2/hexa-WO3/g-C3N4 are proposed. Here, WS2 acts as light harvester, g-C3N4 provides the high conductive surface, wide space tunnelling structure that allows fast mobility of charge carriers will be provided by hexa-WO3.

Expected Outcome:
1. High efficiency in the waste water treatment.
2. Effective utilisation of solar light.
3. Promoting sustainable energy.

Faculty Supervisor:

Hadis Zarrin

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Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology; Nanotechnology

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

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