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Kowalczyk A, Zgardzińska B, Osipiuk K, Jędruchniewicz K, Tyszczuk-Rotko K, Goździuk M, Wang H, Czech B. The Visible-Light-Driven Activity of Biochar-Doped TiO 2 Photocatalysts in β-Blockers Removal from Water. Materials (Basel) 2023; 16:1094. [PMID: 36770101 PMCID: PMC9919264 DOI: 10.3390/ma16031094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Water is the most important life-giving resource on earth. Nowadays, intensive growth of the world population has resulted in increased water consumption and the production of wastewater. Additionally, the presence of pharmaceuticals in treated conventional wastewater or even in the environment is strictly indicating that present techniques of wastewater treatment are not efficient enough and are not designed to remove such pollutants. Scarce water resources in the world are the main driving force for the innovation of novel techniques of water and wastewater treatment. Photocatalysis, as one of the advanced oxidation processes, enables the transformation of recalcitrant and toxic pollutants into CO2, water, and inorganic salts. In the present paper, the photocatalytic oxidation of β-blockers-metoprolol and propranolol-are described. For photocatalytic oxidation, novel TiO2 photocatalysts modified with biochar were used. Photocatalysts were prepared by sol-gel method and the effect of photocatalysts type, presence of inorganic ions, dissolved organic matter, and different water matrix was established. The results indicate that using only the decrease in the tested pollutant concentration is not effective enough in establishing the treatment method's safety. There is a need to use additional testing such as ecotoxicity tests; however, the key parameter is the properly chosen tested organism.
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- Agata Kowalczyk
- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Technology for Complex Trans-Media Pollution, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Department of Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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Goździuk M, Kavetskyy T, Roquero DM, Smutok O, Gonchar M, Královič DP, Švajdlenková H, Šauša O, Kalinay P, Nosrati H, Lebedevaite M, Grauzeliene S, Ostrauskaite J, Kiv A, Zgardzińska B. UV-Cured Green Polymers for Biosensorics: Correlation of Operational Parameters of Highly Sensitive Biosensors with Nano-Volumes and Adsorption Properties. Materials (Basel) 2022; 15:6607. [PMID: 36233949 PMCID: PMC9572821 DOI: 10.3390/ma15196607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
The investigated polymeric matrixes consisted of epoxidized linseed oil (ELO), acrylated epoxidized soybean oil (AESO), trimethylolpropane triglycidyl ether (RD1), vanillin dimethacrylate (VDM), triarylsulfonium hexafluorophosphate salts (PI), and 2,2-dimethoxy-2-phenylacetophenone (DMPA). Linseed oil-based (ELO/PI, ELO/10RD1/PI) and soybean oil-based (AESO/VDM, AESO/VDM/DMPA) polymers were obtained by cationic and radical photopolymerization reactions, respectively. In order to improve the cross-linking density of the resulting polymers, 10 mol.% of RD1 was used as a reactive diluent in the cationic photopolymerization of ELO. In parallel, VDM was used as a plasticizer in AESO radical photopolymerization reactions. Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) was used to characterize vegetable oil-based UV-cured polymers regarding their structural stability in a wide range of temperatures (120-320 K) and humidity. The polymers were used as laccase immobilization matrixes for the construction of amperometric biosensors. A direct dependence of the main operational parameters of the biosensors and microscopical characteristics of polymer matrixes (mostly on the size of free volumes and water content) was established. The biosensors are intended for the detection of trace water pollution with xenobiotics, carcinogenic substances with a very negative impact on human health. These findings will allow better predictions for novel polymers as immobilization matrixes for biosensing or biotechnology applications.
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- Magdalena Goździuk
- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biology and Chemistry, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, 82100 Drohobych, Ukraine
- Department of Materials Engineering, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5810, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5810, USA
- Department of Analytical Biotechnology, Institute of Cell Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 79005 Lviv, Ukraine
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- Department of Biology and Chemistry, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, 82100 Drohobych, Ukraine
- Department of Analytical Biotechnology, Institute of Cell Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 79005 Lviv, Ukraine
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- Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
- Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biomaterials, School of Pharmacy, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan 45139-56111, Iran
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, 50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, 50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, 50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Innovation Technologies, South-Ukrainian K.D. Ushynsky National Pedagogical University, 65020 Odesa, Ukraine
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- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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Zgardzińska B, Chołubek G, Jarosz B, Wysogląd K, Gorgol M, Goździuk M, Chołubek M, Jasińska B. Studies on healthy and neoplastic tissues using positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy and focused histopathological imaging. Sci Rep 2020; 10:11890. [PMID: 32681103 PMCID: PMC7367828 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68727-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Samples of healthy and neoplastic myometrial tissues were investigated using Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS). Meaningful differences between normal and diseased tissues were observed for each patient. The differences were also clearly visible for various kinds of lesions in each patient. The set of lifetimes and intensities obtained from PALS was correlated with the histopathological examinations of the same fragments of tissues. Strong coincidence between PALS parameters and histopathological findings was observed only in the case of a very precise correlation of the investigated area in both techniques. Measurements and discussion presented here were carried out to develop a method for measuring the sub-nanometric structure of human tissues. This kind of investigation, using positron probe, creates an opportunity of a new application in Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
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- B Zgardzińska
- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031, Lublin, Poland.
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- Diagnostic Techniques Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 1, 20-059, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Neurosurgery and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Medical University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 1, 20-954, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031, Lublin, Poland
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- Medical Faculty, Medical University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 1, 20-059, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031, Lublin, Poland
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