Destruction of cyanobacterial toxins by semiconductor photocatalysis

Peter K J Robertson; Linda A. Lawton; Burkhard Münch; Julien Rouzade

doi:10.1039/A607965B

Destruction of cyanobacterial toxins by semiconductor photocatalysis

Peter K J Robertson^*, Linda A. Lawton, Burkhard Münch, Julien Rouzade

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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

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The rapid destruction of microcystin, a cyanobacterial toxin, using a titanium dioxide photocatalyst is observed; the process is extremely efficient with high concentrations of toxin completely undetectable within 10-40 min, depending on the initial concentration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	393-394
Number of pages	2
Journal	Chemical Communications
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/A607965B
Publication status	Published - 1997

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