Multicatalytic activities (photocatalysis, piezocatalysis, and pyrocatalysis) of ferroelectric ceramics Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9Zr0.1O3 (BCZTO) were studied. Maximum degradations (89% and 81%) were achieved in piezo-photocatalytic experiments for degradation of Rhodamine B (RB) and ciprofloxacin. Similarly, 95% degradation of RB was achieved during pyrocatalysis in 250 heating/cooling cycles. Antibacterial performance of ceramics was analyzed with the help of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria-killing processes. The bacterial colony formation drops to zero in 90 min with poled samples of BCZTO ceramics. The poled samples performed much better than that of the unpoled samples in all the catalytic reactions as well as in the bacterial killing process.
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7 April 2020
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April 01 2020
Multicatalytic behavior of Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9 Zr0.1O3 ceramics for pharmaceutical/dye/bacterial treatments
Moolchand Sharma;
Moolchand Sharma
School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
, 175005 Himachal Pradesh, India
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Vishvendra Pratap Singh;
Vishvendra Pratap Singh
School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
, 175005 Himachal Pradesh, India
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Sandeep Kumar;
Sandeep Kumar
School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
, 175005 Himachal Pradesh, India
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Rahul Vaish
Rahul Vaish
a)
School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
, 175005 Himachal Pradesh, India
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: rahul@iitmandi.ac.in. Tel.: +91-1905-26713
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: rahul@iitmandi.ac.in. Tel.: +91-1905-26713
J. Appl. Phys. 127, 135103 (2020)
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Received:
December 07 2019
Accepted:
March 15 2020
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Moolchand Sharma, Vishvendra Pratap Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Vaish; Multicatalytic behavior of Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9 Zr0.1O3 ceramics for pharmaceutical/dye/bacterial treatments. J. Appl. Phys. 7 April 2020; 127 (13): 135103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5141813
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