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Distinguished Professor
National Chung Hsing University
Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Ying-Chen Chen is a senior student in National Chung Hsing University. She specializes in biology technology department. During the internship in the Environmental Nano-material Laboratory, she has applied to the Ministry of Science and Technology’s college student research project, showed actively participation in the development and promotion of agricultural technology. Up to eight million tons of fishery-waste generated from the aquaculture industry annually causing significant economic and environmental issues. Many studies indicated that fishery-waste, such as shrimp shells and crab shells, can be transformed into safe synthetic antibacterial agents chitosan (CTS). Also, titanium dioxide (TiO2) is an outstanding photocatalyst due to its photo-disinfection activity, high chemical/physical stability, cost efficiency, and environmentally friendly. However, traditional TiO2 can only be activated by UV light. Synthesized nitrogen-doped TiO2 (N-TiO2) can be irradiated under visible light for disinfection . Ying Chen Chen’s research is to investigate the synergistic effect of shrimp shells-CTS that incorporates into N-TiO2 (CTS-NTiO2) for the enhancement of photo-disinfection activity. Utilization of such abundant fishery waste is a win-win strategy because it not only alleviates the waste problems but it also be used as an environmental-friendly photocatalyst.
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