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Advances in Catalysis for a Sustainable and Green Future

A Special Issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344) belonging to the section "Environmental Catalysis".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 182

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Prof. Dr. Wajid Zaman

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Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea
Interests: sustainable catalysis; green chemistry; renewable energy; biocatalysis; CO2 conversion; biomass valorization; circular economy; machine learning; medicinal plants; biochar; nanotechnology; climate change mitigation; salinity stress; antioxidants; CRISPR/Cas genome editing
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Prof. Dr. Muhammad Saeed Akhtar

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Department of Chemistry, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea
Interests: catalysis; green chemistry; organic chemistry; sustainable chemistry; reaction mechanisms; catalyst design; renewable resources; environmentally friendly synthesis; waste reduction; process efficiency
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The transition toward a sustainable and low-carbon future requires innovative catalytic materials and processes capable of reducing energy consumption, minimizing waste, and enabling the efficient use of renewable resources. Catalysis plays a central role in addressing these challenges by facilitating cleaner chemical transformations, renewable-fuel production, carbon management, and environmental remediation.

This Special Issue, titled “Advances in Catalysis for a Sustainable and Green Future”, aims to present recent progress in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of advanced catalytic materials. Particular attention will be given to structure–property relationships, active-site engineering, reaction mechanisms, catalyst stability and recyclability, and scalable preparation methods. Contributions may address heterogeneous catalytic, photocatalytic, electrocatalytic, and immobilized biocatalytic materials for applications such as CO2 capture and conversion, hydrogen production, biomass and waste valorization, green chemical synthesis, pollutant degradation, and energy storage and conversion.

We welcome original research articles, communications, and review papers reporting fundamental discoveries, methodological advances, and practical or industrially relevant applications. This Special Issue seeks to bring together researchers from chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, energy, and environmental science to highlight how innovative catalytic materials can contribute to resource efficiency, circularity, decarbonization, and sustainable development.

Prof. Dr. Wajid Zaman
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Saeed Akhtar
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Keywords

  • sustainable catalysis
  • advanced catalytic materials
  • nanostructured and porous catalysts
  • photocatalysis
  • electrocatalysis
  • biocatalysis and enzyme immobilization
  • CO2 conversion and utilization
  • biomass and waste valorization
  • hydrogen production and renewable fuels
  • environmental catalysis and pollutant remediation

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Selective Degradation of Tetracycline by an Adsorption-Coupled Fe-MOF/H2O2 Heterogeneous Fenton-like System
by Peiguo Zhou, Jinzhao Hu, Jiaxin Hou and Jiheng Liu
Catalysts 2026, 16(9), 814; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal16090814 - 9 Sep 2026
Abstract
Selective degradation of antibiotics in complex wastewater is often hindered by the non-selective consumption of reactive oxygen species by coexisting organic matter. In this study, an adsorption-coupled heterogeneous Fenton-like strategy was developed to preferentially enrich tetracycline (TC) at the catalyst interface prior to [...] Read more.
Selective degradation of antibiotics in complex wastewater is often hindered by the non-selective consumption of reactive oxygen species by coexisting organic matter. In this study, an adsorption-coupled heterogeneous Fenton-like strategy was developed to preferentially enrich tetracycline (TC) at the catalyst interface prior to oxidative degradation. MIL-53(Fe), MIL-101(Fe), and NH2-MIL-101(Fe) were synthesized using a solvothermal method and systematically compared in terms of TC adsorption, catalytic degradation, and degradation selectivity in binary TC/glucose systems. Although MIL-101(Fe) exhibited the highest overall TC degradation efficiency, NH2-MIL-101(Fe) showed the highest selectivity toward TC. At a TC/glucose concentration ratio of 2:2, NH2-MIL-101(Fe) achieved a TC degradation selectivity of 73.1%, compared with 50.2% for MIL-101(Fe). Electron spin resonance and radical scavenging experiments demonstrated that ·OH was the dominant reactive species and that TC oxidation occurred predominantly at or near the catalyst surface. The enhanced selectivity was attributed to preferential TC adsorption followed by surface-localized oxidation and repeated adsorption–degradation cycles. Full-scan LC-MS analysis revealed several transformation-related ions, from which a tentative pathway involving possible N-demethylation, oxidative fragmentation, and ring-cleavage-related transformations was proposed; however, the individual product structures were not definitively identified. After five reuse cycles, the TC degradation efficiency remained above 75%, while the degradation selectivity decreased only from 74.7% to 68.7%. NH2-MIL-101(Fe) also retained preferential TC removal in a TC-spiked domestic wastewater matrix. These results demonstrate that coupling preferential adsorption with localized Fenton-like oxidation provides an effective strategy for enhancing the selective removal of antibiotics from complex aqueous matrices. Full article
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