Cel This proposal is for an IIF award to enable a researcher from India to visit a laboratory in the UK. The researcher wishes to develop: (i) new scientific skills; (ii) a lasting collaboration within the UK; and (iii) potential to increase the research capacity of his home research environment.The proposal aims at understanding chemical mechanisms and catalyst design factors that influence photocatalysed degradation of selected pesticides in aqueous solution. This understanding will be used to design and synthesise more efficient titanium dioxide photocatalysts for the destruction of priority organic pollutants.The latter will be achieved using nanoparticle production technologies to synthesize surface and composition modified photocatalysts. For the modification of catalyst composition, we propose to produce innovative P25 analogues by hydrothermal means - in particular, to independently control the rutile crystallite size, anatase porocity and anatase / rutile ratio and to optimize the photoreactivity of the catalyst with respect to those parameters. For the modification of catalyst surface, we propose to conduct a novel study of the efficiencies of photodegradation of hydrophobic and hydrophilic pesticides on samples of TiO2 that have been pretreated to render their surfaces highly hydrophilic and highly hydrophobic, so allowing to be made generic assessment of the respective efficiencies of dynamic and static photodegradation mechanism for each class of pollutant. We also propose to use the Quartz Crystal Microbalance as a technique by which substrate adsorption at the catalyst surface can be measured in real time and most especially during a photodegradation experiment. The determination of the intermediates and the mechanism through which the pesticides of interests are destroyed by these modified photocatalyst will also be investigated. Experiments will be conducted to map the A-> B -> C ->? Program(-y) FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Temat(-y) MOBILITY-2.3 - Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowships (IIF) Zaproszenie do składania wniosków FP6-2002-MOBILITY-7 Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania IIF - Marie Curie actions-Incoming International Fellowships Koordynator ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY Wkład UE Brak danych Adres DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ALIGARH Indie Zobacz na mapie Linki Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych
