Biomedical Waste Management by Using Nanophotocatalysts: The Need for New Options

Materials

Meysam Keshavarz¹  Francesco Baino²  Hae-Won Kim³  Majid Darroudi⁴  Ahmad Ghorbani⁵  Sara Hooshmand⁵  Saeid Kargozar⁶ 

[1] Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London, Bessemer Building, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK;Institute of Materials Physics and Engineering, Applied Science and Technology Department, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy;Institute of Tissue Regeneration Engineering (ITREN), Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Korea;Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad 917794-8564, Iran;Pharmacological Research Center of Medicinal Plants, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad 917794-8564, Iran;Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad 917794-8564, Iran;

关键词: nanophotocatalysts;    biomedical waste management;    waste treatment technologies;    green chemistry;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ma13163511

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Biomedical waste management is getting significant consideration among treatment technologies, since insufficient management can cause danger to medicinal service specialists, patients, and their environmental conditions. The improvement of waste administration protocols, plans, and policies are surveyed, despite setting up training programs on legitimate waste administration for all healthcare service staff. Most biomedical waste substances do not degrade in the environment, and may also not be thoroughly removed through treatment processes. Therefore, the long-lasting persistence of biomedical waste can effectively have adverse impact on wildlife and human beings, as well. Hence, photocatalysis is gaining increasing attention for eradication of pollutants and for improving the safety and clearness of the environment due to its great potential as a green and eco-friendly process. In this regard, nanostructured photocatalysts, in contrast to their regular counterparts, exhibit significant attributes such as non-toxicity, low cost and higher absorption efficiency in a wider range of the solar spectrum, making them the best candidate to employ for photodegradation. Due to these unique properties of nanophotocatalysts for biomedical waste management, we aim to critically evaluate various aspects of these materials in the present review and highlight their importance in healthcare service settings.

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