Photocatalysis in environmental protection

7 am a spirit of no common rate . Titania, Act III scene 1, A Midsummer Night s Dream, W. Shakespeare 

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We leave to specialists the task to describe the desired new approaches in the preparation of zeolites and mesoporous materials. Much work remains to be done for the scale-up of fabrication of MCM and similar materials. The manufacture of specially structured catalysts for very compact devices, like on-board fuel cells and automobile reforming units, is certainly able to bring much information valuable for the fabrication of many specific catalysts in environmental protection, especially for reverse-flow reactors. The demands of photocatalysis also impose constraints. 

In the context of this chapter, however, it is rather surprising that photocatalysis has found only little industrial application so far. Beside the attempts which have been made to apply photocatalysis in information recording, solar energy conversion, or environmental protection the photocatalytic synthesis of high-price organic compounds is of interest. 

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