Russell F. Howe

Peter K. J. Robertson

Andrew Mills

Preface to the Special Issue on Selected Papers from the Second International Conference on Semiconductor Photochemistry SP-2

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Víctor M. Menéndez-Flores

Donia Friedmann

Detlef W. Bahnemann

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Morgan Adams

Ian Campbell

Novel Photocatalytic Reactor Development for Removal of Hydrocarbons from Water

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D. W. Sheel

L. A. Brook

I. B. Ditta

P. Evans

H. A. Foster

A. Steele

H. M. Yates

Biocidal Silver and Silver/Titania Composite Films Grown by Chemical Vapour Deposition

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Peter J. Holliman

Beatriz Vaca Velasco

Ian Butler

Maarten Wijdekop

David A. Worsley

Studies of Dye Sensitisation Kinetics and Sorption Isotherms of Direct Red 23 on Titania

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Mohammad Muneer

Colin Boxall

Photocatalyzed Degradation of a Pesticide Derivative Glyphosate in Aqueous Suspensions of Titanium Dioxide

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Chamnan Randorn

John T. S. Irvine

Peter Robertson

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Omima S. Mohamed

Saleh A. Ahmed

Mostafa F. Mostafa

Aboel-Magd A. Abdel-Wahab

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William Balcerski

Su Young Ryu

Michael R. Hoffmann

Gas-Phase Photodegradation of Decane and  
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by Diffuse Reflectance FTIR

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Peter Pucher

Rabah Azouani

Andrei Kanaev

Gernot Krammer

A Photocatalytic Active Adsorbent for Gas Cleaning in a Fixed Bed Reactor

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