Advances in Materials and Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Pollution, Toxicology and Restoration".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 321
Editors
Interests: wastewater treatment; waste recycling; electrochemical applications
Interests: electrochemistry; solar cells; perovskite material; electrocatalyst; process engineering
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Interests: visible light-responsive photocatalyst; disinfection material; waste resource recovery/waste valorization
Interests: EAOPs; electrocoagulation; circular economy and resource recovery; environmental remediation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water and wastewater treatment face growing challenges due to stricter environmental regulations, emerging contaminants, and the need for sustainable and energy-efficient technologies. Conventional treatment approaches often struggle with limited selectivity, high energy consumption, and insufficient adaptability to complex or variable water matrices. In recent years, advances in materials science and process engineering have created new opportunities to overcome these limitations.
This Special Issue, “Advances in Materials and Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment”, aims to highlight recent progress at the interface of materials innovation and environmental applications. Contributions are invited on the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced materials—such as adsorbents, catalysts, membranes, and electrochemical systems—for pollutant removal, degradation, sensing, energy harvesting, and resource recovery. Studies addressing structure–property relationships, reaction mechanisms, interfacial processes, and performance under realistic water conditions are particularly encouraged.
By bringing together interdisciplinary research spanning materials science, chemistry, and environmental engineering, this collection seeks to advance next-generation technologies for efficient, resilient, and sustainable water and wastewater treatment.
Dr. Yi-Ting Lai
Dr. Tzu-Sen Su
Dr. Li-Ting Yen
Dr. Miguel A. Sandoval
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- water purification
- wastewater remediation
- pollutant removal
- separation and purification
- resource recovery
- water quality sensing
- catalytic technologies
- sustainable environmental engineering
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