Publications by Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

Iron-coated polymer films with high antibacterial activity under indoor and outdoor light, prepared by different facile pre-treatment and deposition methods

César Pulgarin, Sami Rtimi, Stefanos Giannakis, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo, Ania Schärer

In the present work, we study the fabrication of self-cleaning antibacterial surfaces, active under indoor or outdoor light. In order to obtain the highest activity with the lowest complexity we assess mild conditions of preparation (temperatures), pre-tre ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Supported photocatalysts for model pollutant degradation and bacterial inactivation : preparation, evaluation and characterization

Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

Water quality and bacterial infections are directly related to human health and wellbeing, thus waste water treatment is a necessary procedure for avoiding disturbances to ecosystems and for assuring human health. Furthermore, bacterial contamination in wa ...

EPFL2017

New evidence for disinfection, self-cleaning and pollutant degradation mediated by GF-TiO2-Cu mats under solar/visible light in mild oxidative conditions

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Stefanos Giannakis, Michaël Bensimon, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

This study presents the performance of GF-mats loaded with TiO2 and Cu under solar/visible light leading to bacterial inactivation and pollutant degradation at both solid-air and solid-liquid interfaces. The GF-mats show effective water disinfection, self- ...

Elsevier2017

Cu-decorated Raschig-TiO2 rings inducing MB repetitive discoloration without release of Cu-ions under solar light

César Pulgarin, Michaël Bensimon, Juan Kiwi, Rosendo Sanjines, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo, Helena Luisa Teixido Pedarros

The methylene blue (MB) discoloration on innovative photocatalysts made up of Raschig-rings coated by pre-formed TiO2 nanoparticles decorated with CuOx (RR@TiO2-Cu) is presented. The MB-discoloration was drastically accelerated by the subsequent addition o ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Innovative photo-Fenton catalysis by PE-FeOx films leading to methylene blue (MB) degradation: Kinetics, surface properties and mechanism

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo, Rosendo Sanjines, Huiyu Dong

This study reports an innovative preparation polyethylene-FeOx (PE-FeOx films) leading to the degradation of the methylene blue (MB) dye under low intensity sunlight/visible light (>400 nm). The intermediate highly oxidative radicals generated by PE-FeOx l ...

Elsevier2016

Sputtered Cu-polyethylene films inducing bacteria inactivation in the dark and under low intensity sunlight

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo, Oualid Baghriche

This study addresses the preparation of uniform, adhesive and robust thin Cu-polyethylene films (PE-CuOx) by direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS). Cu-coatings of 25 nm sputtered with 60W deposited 0.16% weight Cu/weight PE leading to the fastest bact ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Preparation, kinetics, mechanism and properties of semi-transparent photocatalytic stable films active in dye degradation

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo, Christophe Roussel

The photocatalytic activity, mechanism and characterization of polyethylene-TiO2 films (PE-TiO2) during the discoloration/degradation of methylene blue (MB) are reported in this study. PE-TiO2 films were prepared at moderate temperatures (similar to 90 deg ...

Elsevier2016

Three-dimensional pore structure and ion conductivity of porous ceramic diaphragms

Andreas Züttel, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo, Peter Modregger, Jelena Stojadinovic, Harald Hagendorfer

Wiley-Blackwell2013