Synthesis of Magnetic Photocatalystic Particles for Bacterial Control

Abstract

Magnetic photocatalystic particles (MPCs) become an alternative process for water and wastewater treatment due to the high removal rate of organic pollutants and a good recovery. Little information of MPCs on the control of microorganisms was obtained in previous researches. In this study, the synthesized MPCs combined with 365 nm UVA irradiation under a light of 1.0 mW/cm2were applied to control a typical gram-negative strain Staphylococcus sciuri (99% Identified by the NCBI website), which was isolated from an indoor traditional market in the middle area of Taiwan. As a result, the highest bactericidal efficiency (BE) of MPCs contained 0.50 g magnetic particles in nutrient broth was achieved to 68.18% at 50 mins. Considering to each contribution of bacterial control, UVA irradiation played an important role of BE increased from 34.88% at 10 mins to 63.64% at 50 mins. Photocatalystic reaction provided extra more 11.02% of BE at initial 20 mins. The synthesized MPCs demonstrated good crystallinity of anatase by SEM-EDS and XRF. The 76% MPCs can be recovered by simple magnets after photocatalystic reaction.