About the Authors
- Emrecan Soylemez
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Affiliation Mechanical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Maarten P. de Boer
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* E-mail: mpdebo@andrew.cmu.edu
Affiliation Mechanical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Udom Sae-Ueng
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Affiliation Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Alex Evilevitch
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Affiliation Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Tom A. Stewart
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Affiliation Geochemistry, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
- May Nyman
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Current address: Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
Affiliation Geochemistry, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Competing Interests
Development of the titanate photocatalysts used in the study, as well as their adhesion to substrates, was supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program at Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed-Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy under Contract No. DEAC04-94AL85000. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Synthesis and application of the catalytic materials is the subject of a provisional patent application assigned serial number 61/577,349.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ES MPD US AE TAS MN. Performed the experiments: ES US TAS. Analyzed the data: ES MPD US AE TAS MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES US TAS. Wrote the paper: ES MPD US AE TAS MN.