Research Article
Photocatalytic Antibacterial Performance of Glass Fibers Thin Film Coated with N-Doped SnO2/TiO2
Table 3
A summary of numerical fits of first-order kinetics to the inactivation of bacteria.
| Bacteria | Samples | Rate Equation | Rate constant () (minā1) | |
| S. typhi | Uncoated | | 0.050 | 0.883 | TiO2 | | 0.240 | 0.975 | 3SnO2/TiO2 | | 0.350 | 0.990 | 20N/3SnO2/TiO2 | | 0.450 | 0.960 |
| E. coli | Uncoated | | 0.044 | 0.935 | TiO2 | | 0.086 | 0.986 | 3SnO2/TiO2 | | 0.103 | 0.993 | 20N/3SnO2/TiO2 | | 0.128 | 0.975 |
| S. aureus | Uncoated | | 0.036 | 0.888 | TiO2 | | 0.058 | 0.940 | 3SnO2/TiO2 | | 0.070 | 0.944 | 20N/3SnO2/TiO2 | | 0.082 | 0.936 |
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