Advances in Photocatalytic Disinfection

Introduction.- Visible light photocatalysis of natural semiconducting minerals.- Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Treatment by Environmental Minerals.- Visible light photocatalytic inactivation by Bi-based photocatalysts.- Synthesis and Performance of Silver Photocatalytic Nanomaterials for Water Disinfection.- Solar Photocatalytic Disinfection by Nano Ag-based Photocatalyst.- Photocatalytic Disinfection by Metal-free Materials.- Disinfection of Waters/Wastewaters by Solar Photocatalysis.- Photoelectrocatalytic Materials for Water Disinfection.- Photocatalytic and Photoelectrocatalytic Inactivation Mechanism of Biohazards.- Photoelectrocatalytic Inactivation Mechanism of Bacteria.- Bacterial oxidative stress responses and cellular damage caused by photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic inactivation.- Mechanistic Modeling of Photocatalytic Water Disinfection.

Taicheng An has more than 20 years' working experience on the applications of photocatalysis in the environmental sciences. He received his BSc degree in Chemistry (1996) and MSc degree in Environmental Chemistry (1999) from Northwest Normal University, China, and his PhD degree in Environmental Sciences (2002) from Zhongshan University (Sun Yat-Sen University), China. In 2002 he took a position as Assistant Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor (2003) and Professor (2006). He has served as the Vice Director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Resources Utilization and Protection since 2006. He is also a Coordinating Editor of Environmental Geochemistry and Health, and an Editorial Board Member of Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, Environmental Toxicity and Chemistry as well as Atmospheric Pollution Research. Recently, he moved to the School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology as a tenured professor, and created a new institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control. He has expertise in environmental science and engineering, photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis, water disinfection and wastewater treatment, and environmental catalytic systems for air and water treatment. He has published more than 260 articles (including 220 SCI indexed papers) on various aspects of environmental science and engineering.

Huijun Zhao received his BSc degree in Chemistry (1982) and MSc degree in Electrochemistry (1986) from North-Eastern University, China, and his PhD degree in Chemistry (1994) from the University of Wollongong, Australia. From 1994 to 1997, he held Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow positions at the University of Wollongong and the University of Western Sydney. He took on a Lecturer position at the School of Environmental and Applied