Microwave induced surface enhanced pollutant adsorption and photocatalytic degradation on Ag/TiO2

In this work, Ag/TiO 2 composite was prepared by photo-reduction method. The study of photocatalytic degradation of different organic pollutants found that microwave can enhance the photocatalytic degradation rate . Further studies have shown that photo-generated holes are the main active species involved in photocatalytic degradation. Under microwave irradiation , silver nanoparticles can not only promote the charge separation process, but also enhance the adsorption of organic pollutants on the surface of TiO 2 .