Anti-fish bacterial pathogen effect of visible light responsive Fe3O4@TiO2 nanoparticles immobilized on glass using TiO2 sol–gel

This paper demonstrates a fish pathogen reduction procedure that uses TiO2 sol–gel coating Fe3O4@TiO2 powder on glass substrate. Such procedure can effectively relieve two constraints that haunt TiO2 sterilization applications: 1) the need for UV for overcoming the wide band gap of pure TiO2 and 2) the difficulty of its recovering from water for reuse. In the process, visible light responsive Fe3O4/TiO2 nanoparticles are synthesized and immobilized on glass using TiO2 sol–gel as the binder for fish bacterial pathogen disinfection test. After 3 h of visible light irradiation, the immobilized Fe3O4@TiO2's inhibition efficiencies for fish bacterial pathogen are, respectively, 50% for Edwardsiella tarda (BCRC 10670) and 23% for Aeromonas hydrophila (BCRC 13018).