Novel core-shell Fe3O4/NiO nanofibers for the photocatalytic degradation of pharmaceutical compounds

Summary

Pharmaceutical residues in water are difficult to remove, and photocatalysts that work well are often hard to recover afterwards. This study addresses both problems with a single fibre architecture: Fe₃O₄-Fe₂NiO₄/NiO core-shell nanofibres made by coaxial electrospinning, where the shell drives photocatalytic degradation of active pharmaceutical compounds while the magnetic core lets the spent catalyst be pulled out of the treated water with a magnetic field. The structural, optical, magnetic and photocatalytic properties are characterised together, since in this design they are inseparable.

Authors & Affiliations

• Roman Viter Corresponding

  Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
• Meriem Abid

  Institut Européen des Membranes (IEM), Univ Montpellier, ENSCM, CNRS, France
• Tara M. Howayek

  Institut Européen des Membranes (IEM), Univ Montpellier, ENSCM, CNRS, France
• Viktor Zabolotnii

  Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
• Martin Sahul

  Institute of Materials Science, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Mária Čaplovičová

  Centre for Nanodiagnostics of Materials, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Iryna Tepliakova

  Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
• Viktors Sints

  Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
• Andrejs Dutovs

  Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Linari Electrospinning Systems

Topics

Materials