• DOI:10.1179/174328407X158640
Corpus ID: 137115006

Studies on photocatalytic degradation of polystyrene

@article{Bandyopadhyay2007StudiesOP,
  title={Studies on photocatalytic degradation of polystyrene},
  author={A. Bandyopadhyay and Ganesh C. Basak},
  journal={Materials Science and Technology},
  year={2007},
  volume={23},
  pages={307 - 314}
}

A. Bandyopadhyay, Ganesh C. Basak

Published 2007

Materials Science

Materials Science and Technology

Abstract This paper reports the photo degradation of polystyrene (PS) by using zinc oxide (ZnO) as photo catalyst. Virgin PS is not responsive to degradation by ultra violet (UV) light because of the presence of phenyl rings in its repeating units. ZnO acts as an UV absorber and helps in transferring the absorbed energy to various bonds of PS and causes degradation. The concentration of ZnO followed by the dispersion within the PS matrix has been found to be the key as the maximum weight loss… CONTINUE READING

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