Innovative photocatalyst (FeOx-TiO2): transients induced by femtosecond laser pulse leading to bacterial inactivation under visible lightстатья
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Аннотация:This study reports the photosensitizing effect/mechanism of FeOx under visible light irradiation and charge transfer to TiO2 on FeOx-TiO2 cosputtered film. The transients which were photo-induced by femto-second laser pulses at 545 nm (25 fs) were identified, in addition to the concomitant bleaching bands at <440 nm. Electron trapping at 150 fs was observed to compete with electron-hole recombination. A regularized inverse Laplace transform of the transient decay kinetics was worked out to determine the lifetime of the transients. About 50% of the charge carriers recombined within 500 fs, less than 50% of the charges recombined within 25 ps and a small percentage remained trapped. The transient decay within 500 ps did not decay to zero. This is the evidence for the photo-induced charges in FeOx-TiO2 leading subsequently to bacterial inactivation in the minute range. The second part of this study addresses the details of the FeOx-TiO2-PE photocatalyst performance during E. coli inactivation under solar light irradiation. The bacterial inactivation kinetics was similar under solar or visible light irradiation (> 400 nm). This observation unexpectedly confirms the role of FeOx absorbing light in the visible region. The important role of TiO2 is reported, leading to bacterial inactivation in the FeOx-TiO2 co-sputtered films.