The escalating global demand for food production has led to a pervasive reliance on pesticides, such as chlorpyrifos and mancozeb, to safeguard agricultural yields from pests and diseases. However, the extensive application and persistent nature of these agrochemicals pose significant environmental and health risks, necessitating effective remediation strategies 1. In response to this critical challenge, photocatalytic degradation has emerged as a promising and sustainable technological approach for detoxifying pesticide-contaminated ecosystems, leveraging the intrinsic properties of semiconductor photocatalysts 2.
Vasu Patel (Fri,) studied this question.