Advanced Hydrogel for Water Treatment (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

We are grateful to all authors, reviewers, and readers for their responses to the first edition of our Special Issue on “Advanced Hydrogel for Water Treatment”. You can access these articles for free using the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/gels/special_issues/Gels_Water_treatment

In recent years, the shortage of freshwater resources as well as the contamination of aqueous environments are urgent problems worldwide. The development of effective technologies for freshwater harvesting and water decontamination have become an urgent research hotspot. Hydrogel, as a novel floatable, durable, anti-fouling, and suitable recycling material with a porous 3D network structure, is an effective adsorbent, able to enhance the photothermal solar efficiency conversion and removal of series of pollutants from water in desalination and decontaminants during water treatment, respectively. Hydrogel, which exhibits excellent pollutant adsorption capacity, water holding capacity, water adsorption capacity, and reversible swelling ability, has potential application value in water treatment at a large scale.

This Special Issue focuses on the preparation of physical and chemical hydrogel, as well as the application of hydrogel for desalination and decontaminant in water purification process, for example, seawater desalination, atmospheric condensation, various pollutants adsorption, and oil–water separation.

Prof. Dr. Chun Zhao
Guest Editor

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• hydrogel
• desalination
• atmospheric condensation
• heavy metal ions
• organics removal
• water treatment

• Advanced Hydrogel for Water Treatment in Gels (7 articles)