Rice husk silica derived MICROSCAFS® for a green solar-driven photodegradation of minocycline in aqueous media

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Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2025, 70, 107003
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwpe.2025.107003

Biopolyurethane coatings with silica-titania microspheres (MICROSCAFS®) as functional filler for corrosion protection

Tiago A.R. Silva, Ana C. Marques, R.A. Shakoor, M. Fátima Montemor and Maryna Taryba

Surface and Coatings Technology, 2024, 494, 131376
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2024.131376

Photocatalytic Degradation of Neonicotinoids—A Comparative Study of the Efficacy of Hybrid Photocatalysts

Rahmiye Zerrin Yarbay, Veli Şimşek, Lucija Bogdan and Vesna Tomašić

Processes, 2024, 12, 489
DOI: 10.3390/pr12030489

Robust Photocatalytic MICROSCAFS® with Interconnected Macropores for Sustainable Solar-Driven Water Purification

Mário Vale, Beatriz T. Barrocas, Rita M. N. Serôdio, M. Conceição Oliveira, José M. Lopes and Ana C. Marques

IJMS, 2024, 25, 5958
DOI: 10.3390/ijms25115958

Mechanistic Study of the Formation of Multicomponent Oxide Porous Microspheres (MICROSCAFS®) by Cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy

Mário Vale and Ana C. Marques

Gels, 2023, 9, 704
DOI: 10.3390/gels9090704

Optimization of TiO2 loaded sol-gel derived MICROSCAFS® for enhanced minocycline removal from water and real wastewater

Beatriz Trindade Barrocas, Sofia Moreira Fernandes, Teresa Alcobia, Marta C. Lourenço, M. Conceição Oliveira and Ana C. Marques

J Sol-Gel Sci Technol, 2025, 116, 1968
DOI: 10.1007/s10971-025-06759-9

Maximizing photocatalytic efficiency with minimal amount of gold: Solar-driven TiO2 photocatalysis supported by MICROSCAFS® for facile catalyst recovery

Sofia Moreira Fernandes, Beatriz Trindade Barrocas, Jéssica Verger Nardeli, M. Fátima Montemor, Ermelinda Maçoas, M. Conceição Oliveira, Carla C.C.R. de Carvalho, Alessandro Lauria, Markus Niederberger and Ana C. Marques

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2024, 12, 112043
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2024.112043

Open the Pores: Particles with Fully Accessible Hierarchical Pore Networks by Controlling Phase Separation in Confinement

Umair Sultan, Allison Götz, Nicolas Salcedo, Lukas Sandner, Johannes Martinus Peter Beunen, Alexander Kichigin, Carola Vorndran, Paolo Malgaretti, Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, Matthias Thommes, Jens Harting, Erdmann Spiecker and Nicolas Vogel

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 19841
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c03923

Correlative X-ray and electron tomography for scale-bridging, quantitative analysis of complex, hierarchical particle systems

Allison Götz, Fabian Lutter, Dennis Simon Possart, Daniel Augsburger, Usman Arslan, Sabrina Pechmann, Carmen Rubach, Moritz Buwen, Umair Sultan, Alexander Kichigin, Johannes Böhmer, Nora Vorlaufer, Peter Suter, Tor Hildebrand, Matthias Thommes, Peter Felfer, Nicolas Vogel, Katharina Breininger, Silke Christiansen, Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri and Erdmann Spiecker

Tomography of Materials and Structures, 2025, 9, 100069
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmater.2025.100069

MICROSCAFS® for minocycline elimination from water and real wastewater: Porosity and TiO2 nanoparticles effect

Sofia Moreira Fernandes, Beatriz Trindade Barrocas, Mário Vale, M. Conceição Oliveira, Abeer Al Mohtar and Ana C. Marques

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 504, 158771
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2024.158771