Biological agent inactivation in a flowing air stream by photocatalysis
- 28 April 2005
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 23,p. 2918-2920
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b503638k
Abstract
The first decontamination of a flowing air stream polluted by bacteria, via room temperature non-germicidal UV photocatalysis on titania, leads to a simple and 99.1–99.8% efficient process.Keywords
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