Current strategies for the remediation of fluorinated organic pollutants suffer from high energy consumption and secondary pollution risk. Here, the authors present a solar-powered mineralization strategy using cerium oxide/mesoporous silica heterojunction photocatalysts that achieves complete defluorination of different types of organofluorine contaminants, including fluorinated e-waste, fluoro-antibiotics and perfluorinated surfactants.
- Lei Zheng
- Jing-Lan Zhang
- Jing-Xin Jian