From Waste to Value: Advanced Materials for Integrated Pollution Management and Circular Economy
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resource chemistry and environmental chemistry; chemical process intensification and intelligent equipment research; pollutant treatment and comprehensive utilization of resources
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transition toward a circular economy requires transformative solutions that convert industrial and municipal wastes into high-value materials while enabling integrated pollution management across air, water, and soil systems. Rapid advances in green resource utilization, process intensification, and intelligent equipment are creating new opportunities to design materials and scalable processes that simultaneously reduce emissions, recover resources, and deliver resilient environmental performance.
The aim of this Special Issue of Materials is to showcase recent progress in advanced materials, interfacial chemistry, and engineered processes for pollutant capture, separation, catalytic conversion, and resource recovery. We welcome the submission of contributions that focus on waste-derived functional materials (e.g., solid waste-based adsorbents, catalysts, membranes, and carbon materials), integrated treatment of complex pollutants, coupling of reaction–separation and intensified reactors, and intelligent/AI-assisted design and optimization of materials and equipment. Topics of interest also include lifecycle assessment, technoeconomic analysis, long-term stability and regeneration, and pilot-scale demonstrations bridging laboratory innovation with industrial deployment.
We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions to advance sustainable technologies that turn waste streams into resources and enable cleaner production.
Prof. Dr. Renlong Liu
Guest Editor
Dr. Facheng Qiu
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- waste-derived functional materials
- porous adsorbents
- catalytic materials
- photocatalysts
- electrocatalysts
- membrane materials
- metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)
- layered double hydroxides (LDHs)
- biochar-based materials
- geopolymers
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