2nd Meeting of Working Group 1

LIGHT SOURCES AND NEW NANOSTRUCTURES FOR PHOTOCATALYSIS

Toulouse, France, 12 November 2007


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Morning Session, moderation: Georges Zissis


9h00 - 9h15 Opening address by French COST 540 representatives
Georges Zissis and Lubomir Spanhel

9h15 - 10h00 Optical irradiation sources for application in photochemistry and photocatalysis
Marie-Thérese Maurette, IMRCP Toulouse, France

10h00 - 10h20 Lampe influence on the photoreactor design and performance
Benoit Kartheuser, CERTECH, Belgium

10h20 - 10h40 Dielectric Barrier Lamps for photocatalysis, Photochemistry and other photoinduced applications
Sounil Bhoslé, Georges Zissis, University of Toulouse, France

10h40 - 11h00 Coffee break

11h00 - 11h20 Degradation of organic compounds in phase gas by photocatalysis: medium pressure mercury arc and excimer lamp
Florence Benoit-Marquié, University of Toulouse, France

11h20 - 11h40 Influence of irradiation in gas-phase photoreactors: selection of a support
Raquel Portela, Benigno Sánchez, Juan Coronado, Silvia Suárez, CIEMAT, Spain

11h40 - 14h00 Lunch


Afternoon Session, moderation: Lubomir Spanhel


14h00 - 14h20 Overview of the ISO draft "Ultraviolet Light Source for Testing Photocatalytic Materials"
Shu Takeshita, Tokai University, Japan

14h20 - 14h40 Irish activities in developing novel nanomaterial photocatalysts and test methods
Suresh C. Pillai, CREST, Dublin, Ireland

14h40 - 15h00 From molecules to coatings: New approaches for self-cleaning surfaces
Ralf DILLERT, University of Hannover, Germany

15h00 - 15h20 Soft chemistry route to titanium dioxides: nanolayers, nanoribbons, nanofibers and its applications to photocatalysis and energy storage
Luc Brohan, University of Nantes, France

15h20 - 16h00 Coffee break and discussions

16h00 - 16h20 Vis-light active N-doped TiO2 grown by CVD on steel: doping-nanostructurephotocatalysis correlations
Francis MAURY, University of Toulouse, France

16h20 - 16h40 Stabilized Langmuir-Blodgett films of nanoparticles for photocatalytic application
Lívia Naszályi and Nóra Ábrahám, University of Budapest, Hungary

16h40 - 17h00 Photocatalyst preparation by carbon doping of TiO2
Antonin Morawski, Madgalena Janus, Beata Tryba, University of Szczecin, Poland

17h00 - 17h20 Comparative photocatalytic tests on superhydrophilic nanostructured “ZnxTiyOz” films
Galina Krylova, Martin Surynek, Lubomir Spanhel, University of Rennes, France

17h20 - 17h30 Concluding remarks by COST 540 Chairman Frantisek Peterka