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Open-cell macroporous bead: a novel polymeric support for heterogeneous photocatalytic reactions

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A novel polymeric support for heterogeneous photocatalytic reactions was fabricated by using a multiple O/W/O emulsion as the template, which was an open-cell macroporous bead with photocatalyst titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles embedded in the void surface. The beads exhibited high photocatalytic efficiency, up to 99.4 % methyl orange could be degraded in 2.5 h photocatalysis in the water containing the bead of 0.46 wt%. Moreover, stable cyclic usage in wastewater treatment was proved to be feasible, and not any decrease in the photocatalytic performance was found for the use in their later 9 cycles, which make the bead material an ideal and potential photocatalyst in wastewater industry.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (51103042, 51203048), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (12ZZ056), and Shanghai Key Laboratory Project (08DZ2230500).

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    Yun Zhu, Ye Hua, Shengmiao Zhang, Yanhua Wang & Jianding Chen

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Zhu holds a Ph.D, East China University of Science and Technology.

Hua holds a Ph.D, East China University of Science and Technology.

Zhang holds a Ph.D, East China University of Science and Technology.

Prof. Chen, East China University of Science and Technology.

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Zhu, Y., Hua, Y., Zhang, S. et al. Open-cell macroporous bead: a novel polymeric support for heterogeneous photocatalytic reactions. J Polym Res 22, 57 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-015-0703-9

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