Hairspray by Mark O'donnell

Hairspray by Mark O'donnell

Photoactive nanomaterials have been receiving increasing attention due to their potential application in the light-driven degradation of water and gas-phase pollutants. However, to exploit the great potential of photoactive materials and access their properties requires fine-tuning of their size/shape-dependent chemical-physical properties, and on the ability to integrate them in photoreactors or to deposit them onto large surfaces. Therefore, the synthetic approach as well as post-synthesis manipulation could strongly affect the final photocatalytic properties of the nanomaterial. The aim of the present Special Issue is to report on the most recent progress towards the application of photoactive nanomaterials and nanomaterial-based coatings in pollutant degradation, paying particular attention to cases close to real application: scalable synthetic approaches to nanocatalysts, preparation of nanocatalyst-based coatings, degradation of real pollutants and bacterial inactivation, and application in building materials.

Mark O'Donnell wrote Getting Over Homer, as well as Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tall Stories, two comic collections. His humor, cartoons, and poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Spy, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times Magazine, and he has had multiple plays produced both on and off Broadway. In 2012, he passed away.