A method for the degradation of pyrrolidine in water is described. The method relaies on the photocatalytic degradation of pyrrolidine to CO2 and NH3 by UV irradiation and using titanium dixide semiconductor as a photocatalyst. Compared with direct photolysis, the semiconductor catalytic photolysis gave consistently higher degradation yields for pyrrolidine in water. T...

Limin Qi received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Peking University in 1990 and his Ph.D degree in Physical Chemistry from Peking University under the supervision of Prof. Jiming Ma in 1998. He then went to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany to do his postdoctoral work with Prof. Markus Antonietti and Dr. Helmut Cölfen on biomimetic mineralization. In 2000, he joined...

Semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), commonly known as quantum dots (QDs), have received great attention over the last two decades due to their, unique size and shapedependent optoelectronic properties, as well as their flexible surface chemistry. While efforts to produce colloidal NCs date back to the pioneering work of Rossetti et al at Bell Labs1 and Ekimov et al at the Vavilov State Optical In...