PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF SELF-CLEANING SEMICONDUCTOR/CARBON PAINTS

摘要

Indoor air quality represents one of the most crucial aspects worldwide that needs to be strictly controlled to avoid health issues. Photocatalytic self-cleaning paints represent an interesting approach for indoor pollutant removal. The oxidation process of self- cleaning paints may be applied to biological pollution (i.e., moulds) as well as to inorganic and organic contaminants. In the latter cases, the self-cleaning action aims to achieve the complete mineralization of the pollutants to obtain harmless products [1-3].