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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2007
Z. Ryan Tian, Fayetteville, AR (US);
Z. Ryan Tian, Fayetteville, AR (US);
University of Arkansas Technology Development Foundation, Fayetteville, AK (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to applications of TiO-containing, macro-sized nanostructures in the fields including photocatalysis, information writing-erasing-rewriting, microfiltration, controlled drug release, and tire making. In one aspect, the present invention relates to a method of photocatalytically decomposing organic pollutants. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of mixing a solution containing organic pollutants and a plurality of TiO-containing, macro-sized nanostructures to form a mixture and exposing the mixture to UV irradiation to decompose the organic pollutants.