Water is a precious resource for all known forms of life and providing sufficient quantities at an appropriate standard is a global challenge.
There is a need to develop new, low-cost but sensitive, accurate, specific and reliable portable field-testing sensors for a safe water quality monitoring system. Electroanalytical techniques will be developed to provide methodologies suitable to meet the high standards required for detecting pollutants even at very low concentrations.
Conventional remediation technologies have so far shown limited effectiveness in wastewater treatment resulting in a greater emphasis on innovative chemical processes and technologies. This project aims to develop chemical oxidation nanotechnologies that can target specific compounds through the combination of nanotitania with photocatalytic treatment. This interesting new and promising approach will be coordinated with quantum chemistry and chemical dynamics theoretical calculations.
There is a need to develop new, low-cost but sensitive, accurate, specific and reliable portable field-testing sensors for a safe water quality monitoring system. Electroanalytical techniques will be developed to provide methodologies suitable to meet the high standards required for detecting pollutants even at very low concentrations.
Conventional remediation technologies have so far shown limited effectiveness in wastewater treatment resulting in a greater emphasis on innovative chemical processes and technologies. This project aims to develop chemical oxidation nanotechnologies that can target specific compounds through the combination of nanotitania with photocatalytic treatment. This interesting new and promising approach will be coordinated with quantum chemistry and chemical dynamics theoretical calculations.