Lilla Balassa's research while affiliated with University of Szeged and other places

... Due to the closeness of the potentials, the excited electron of strontium titanate (CB of SrTiO3 is also 3.4 eV [22]) can be transferred to the valence band of CuWO4 (VB of CuWO4 is also 2.3 eV [23]), which is possible because the outer electron of CuWO4 is also excited at the same time as the excitation of SrTiO3, so a positive hole remains in its valence band. The excited electron of CuWO4 is therefore more difficult to recombine, and it is much more likely to be taken up by oxygen, because it has more time for that, after which a hole remains at the end of the "chain" (SrTiO3 VB), which produces a hydroxyl radical through the oxidation of water [24]. In the case of pure SrTiO3, the dissolved oxygen (or other molecules from the medium) can only pick up the electron from the SrTiO3, so the electron has two options: it recombines or is picked up by a molecule of the medium. ...

... The ongoing worldwide epidemic crisis and the emerging antibiotic resistance of pathogens urge the development of new disinfection technologies (Boldogkői et al., 2021;Abdelghafour et al., 2022). Besides finding the proper medications, the spotlight of related scientific research is shed on developing novel preventive measures meant to hinder the spreading of infections. ...