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G Model HAZMAT-13764; No. of Journal of Hazardous Materials xxx 2011 xxx–xxx Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Hazardous Materials j o u r n a l h o m e p ag e: w w w. elsev /loc a t e/ jhaz m at Review A survey of photocatalytic materials for environmental remediation Agatino Di Paola a,b,? , Elisa García-López a,b , Giuseppe Marcì a,b , Leonardo Palmisano a,b,?? a “Schiavello-Grillone Photocatalysis Group”, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni, di tecnologie Chimiche, Automatica e modelli Matematici DIEETCAM , Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy b Consorzio Interuniversitario “La Chimica per l’Ambiente” INCA , Via delle Industrie 21/8, 30175 Marghera, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Heterogeneous photocatalysis is an advanced oxidation process which has been the subject of a huge Received 10 June 2011 amount of studies related to air cleaning and water puri?cation. All these processes have been carried Received in revised form out mainly by using TiO2 -based materials as the photocatalysts and ca. 75% of the articles published in 14 November 2011 the last 3 years is related to them. This review illustrates the efforts in the search of alternative photocat- Accepted 14 November 2011 Available online xxx alysts that are not based on TiO2 , with some exceptions concerning particularly innovative modi?cations as nanoassembled TiO2 or TiO2 composites with active carbon, graphite and fullerene. Papers report- ing preparation, characterization and testing of binary, ternary and quaternary compounds, have been Keywords: Heterogeneous photocatalysis reviewed. Despite many of these photocatalysts being effective for the photodecomposition of many Environmental remediation pollutants, most of them do not allow a complete mineralization of the starting compounds, differently Water treatment from TiO2