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Record W4412832032 · doi:10.1016/j.apsadv.2025.100811

Hybrid metal-free floatable photocatalysts for catalytic degradation of organic contaminants and inactivation of pathogens in water

2025· article· en· W4412832032 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueApplied Surface Science Advances · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicAdvanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanada Foundation for InnovationCanada First Research Excellence FundUniversity of Alberta
KeywordsDegradation (telecommunications)ContaminationCatalysisChemistryEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental chemistryMetalPulp and paper industryBiologyEcologyOrganic chemistry

Abstract

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Wastewater treatment has garnered significant attention, particularly due to the growing focus on environmental preservation. Treating wastewater effluents to mitigate environmental contamination and sustain a clean ecosystem for all living organisms is essential. Various techniques have successfully removed industrial waste, with photocatalysis emerging as a promising approach for the degradation of a diverse class of organic contaminants. Metal-free photocatalysts (MFPs) such as graphene oxide, reduced graphene and carbon nitride, and covalent organic framework are gaining popularity among scientists globally due to their low cost, high stability, and good thermal conductivity. However, traditional powdered photocatalysts present several drawbacks, such as limited capacity for light collection, inadequate surface area, poor surface oxygenation, and challenges in separation from treated water. This review discusses the fabrication processes of hybrid floatable MFP composites based on their substrates and critically evaluates their performance in degrading organic dyes and antibiotics and their application in water disinfection through specific case studies. In addition, this work highlights the potential of coupling floatable MFPs as an active component with other technologies such as ultrasonic vibration and piezoelectric effect for water remediation. Finally, this review outlines future research directions and addresses current challenges in the field.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.593

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it