Nitric oxide emission during the reductive heterogeneous photocatalysis of aqueous nitrate with TiO2

V. N.MONTESINOS; N. QUCI; H. DESTAILLATS; M.I. LITTER

RSC Advances

Royal Society of Chemistry

Año: 2015 vol. 5 p. 85319 - 85322

For the first time, nitric oxide (NO), a precursor of nitrogen dioxide(NO2, a NIOSH-listed atmospheric pollutant), has been found to beone of the final products of the photocatalytic reduction of nitrate inwater using TiO2 and formic acid as a hole scavenger.