Synthesis and application of g-C3N4/Fe3O4/Ag nanocomposite for the efficient photocatalytic inactivation of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis bacteria in aqueous solutions

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Table 1 Kinetic models used to describe the inactivation process

Model	Bacteria population	RMSE	R-Square	R-Square adjusted
E. coli
Log-linear	10³	0.4043	0.9763	0.9723
	10⁵	0.4480	0.8928	0.8571
	10⁷	0.7712	0.8887	0.8510
Weibull	10³	0.0374	0.9998	0.9990
	10⁵	0.1368	0.9982	0.9968
	10⁷	0.1392	0.9977	0.9943
Biphasic	10³	0.2066	0.9948	0.9928
	10⁵	0.2624	0.9755	0.9510
	10⁷	0.2195	0.9915	0.9858
B. subtilis
Log-Linear	10³	0.2729	0.9305	0.9450
	10⁵	0.3636	0.9547	0.9417
	10⁷	0.3624	0.9518	0.9242
Weibull	10³	0.1053	0.9965	0.9955
	10⁵	0.1153	0.9919	0.9878
	10⁷	0.1705	0.9905	0.9865
Biphasic	10³	0.1361	0.9849	0.9811
	10⁵	0.1527	0.9839	0.9806
	10⁷	0.2196	0.9825	0.9798