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    Photocatalytic TiO2 Micromotors for Removal of Microplastics and Suspended Matter
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    • Linlin Wang
      Linlin Wang
      Physical Chemistry TU Dresden, Zellescher Weg 19, 01062 Dresden, Germany
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    • Andrea Kaeppler
      Andrea Kaeppler
      Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Hohe Straße 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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    • Dieter Fischer
      Dieter Fischer
      Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Hohe Straße 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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    • Juliane Simmchen*
      Juliane Simmchen
      Physical Chemistry TU Dresden, Zellescher Weg 19, 01062 Dresden, Germany
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    Environmental contamination is a major global challenge, and the effects of contamination are found in most habitats. In recent times, the pollution by microplastics has come to the global attention and their removal displays an extraordinary challenge with no reasonable solutions presented so far. One of the new technologies holding many promises for environmental remediation on the microscale are self-propelled micromotors. They present several properties that are of academic and technical interest, such as the ability to overcome the diffusion limitation in catalytic processes, as well as their phoretic interaction with their environment. Here, we present two novel strategies for the elimination of microplastics using photocatalytic Au@Ni@TiO2-based micromotors. We show that individual catalytic particles as well as assembled chains show excellent collection and removal of suspended matter and microplastics from environmental water samples.

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    • Photocatalytic propulsion of Au@Ni@TiO2 micromotors in H2O with 315 mW UV light (AVI)

    • Photocatalytic propulsion of Au@Ni@TiO2 micromotors in H2O2 with 315 mW UV light (AVI)

    • Collection of PS particles by micromotors very efficiently through phoretic interactions in the mixture of individual catalytic Au@Ni@TiO2 micromotors and PS particles (AVI)

    • Collection of the extracts from sample 11 consisting of zeolite rapidly by micromotors and moved together in 0.1% H2O2 solution with UV light illumination (AVI)

    • Moving of the assembled chain directionally at a speed of 7.35 μm s–1 in H2O with UV light (AVI)

    • Moving of the assembled chain directionally at a speed of 26.96 μm s–1 in 0.1% H2O2 solution with UV light (AVI)

    • Collection of the suspended matter in 0.1% H2O2 and shoveled by the chains out of the irradiated area(AVI)

    • Removal of microplastics, extracted from face cleansing cream sample 13, from a 0.2% H2O2 solution (AVI)

    • Removal of microplastics as displayed with the microplastic sample from Warnow river (AVI)

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