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Estimation of the Integral Toxicity of Photocatalysts Based on Graphitic Carbon Nitride in a Luminescent Test

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A ternary heterosystem consisting of crystalline graphitic carbon nitride, zinc oxide, and zinc sulfide (g-C3N4/ZnO/ZnS) was obtained by the one-stage decomposition of a mixture of thiourea and zinc acetate. The integral toxicity index of the resulting material was estimated in a luminescent test with a genetically modified Escherichia coli strain as a test object. The effect of quenching the luminescence of E. coli was noted both under exposure to UV radiation due to photocatalytic reactions on the surface of g-C3N4/ZnO/ZnS leading to the formation of highly oxidative radical ions interacting with cell membranes and without irradiation due to mechanical interactions with bacterial cells. At a 0.3 g/L concentration of g-C3N4/ZnO/ZnS in aqueous solution, the toxicity index T reached 75.6% under UV irradiation. In this case, an increase in the toxicity index T of the ternary heterosystem in a test concentration range from 0.1 to 0.3 g/L was 6 or 10–11% under UV radiation or without illumination, respectively, as compared with that of the pure graphite-like carbon nitride obtained under identical conditions.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to D.V. Zhigulin for analyzing the structure of the samples by scanning electron microscopy and to Professor V.V. Uglov for performing the X-ray diffraction analysis of the samples.

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These studies were carried out within the framework of the State Research Program of the Republic of Belarus “Materials Science, New Materials, and Technologies” 1.4.

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  1. Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, 220013, Minsk, Belarus

    E. B. Chubenko, A. V. Baglov & V. E. Borisenko

  2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, 115409, Moscow, Russia

    V. E. Borisenko

  3. Scientific Practical Centre of Hygiene, 220012, Minsk, Belarus

    N. V. Dudchik, E. V. Drozdova & O. A. Yemelyanova

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Chubenko, E.B., Baglov, A.V., Dudchik, N.V. et al. Estimation of the Integral Toxicity of Photocatalysts Based on Graphitic Carbon Nitride in a Luminescent Test. Kinet Catal 63, 166–171 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002315842202001X

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