and (5)). These reactive species then interact with the organic
pollutants and degrade them into harmless byproducts.
(Equations (6–8)).
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
CFO− BFO + Magnetic Fields → CFO− BFO e− + h+
(3)
Keywords
bismuth ferrite, catalysis, magnetoelectric, multiferroic, organics
degradation
e− + O2 → O2−•
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
Received: March 1, 2019
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h+ +H2O → •OH
h+ +Organic Pollutants → Degradation Products
•OH+Organic Pollutants → Degradation Products
O−2 • +Organic Pollutants → Degradation Products
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Acknowledgements
Conceptualization: F.M., X.C., and S.P.; methodology: F.M., X.C., and
M.H.; investigation: F.M., X.C., H.T., C.S., E.C.S, G.L., and P.S.; writing,
original draft: F.M and S.P.; writing, review, and editing: F.M., S.P., X.C.,
X.M., B.N., M.H., H.T., C.S., E.C.S., G.L., and P.S.; supervision: X.C.,
S.P., and B.N.; funding acquisition: S.P. This work has been financed
by the European Research Council Starting Grant “Magnetoelectric
Chemonanorobotics for Chemical and Biomedical Applications
(ELECTROCHEMBOTS)”, by the ERC grant agreement no. 336456.
The authors would like to acknowledge the Scientific Center for Optical
and Electron Microscopy (ScopeM) of ETH Zurich, the Institute of
Geochemistry and Petrology and the FIRST laboratory, ETH Zurich for
their technical support.
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