Carbon-Based Novel Materials for Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbon Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water treatment; heavy metal removal; adsorption materials; photocatalysis; nanocomposites; environmental catalysis
Interests: hydrothermal synthesis; silicate; crystallization; material characterization; X-ray diffraction; crystal structure; recrystallisation; crystallography; XRD analysis
Interests: carbon-based materials; graphene composites; wastewater treatment; water purification; heavy metal removal; adsorption and remediation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue “Carbon-Based Novel Materials for Wastewater Treatment” highlights the most urgent global need for the sustainable and advanced water treatment technologies. It showcases the recent research and development in the design of carbon-based composites, membranes and gels to overcome the water pollution in industrial and domestic scales.
The scope focuses on but is not limited to the synthesis, characterization, methodology and application of novel carbon nanomaterial composites such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon dots, carbon fibers and their composites with MOFs, semiconductors and even with polymers. Carbon-based materials offer exceptional properties such as tunable surface chemistry, high surface area, and excellent adsorption capacities making them suitable for wastewater treatment applications. The contributions in this Special Issue will provide recent advancements in the removal of water contaminants such as dyes, antibiotics, microplastics, and heavy metals through adsorption, photocatalysis, membrane-separation, electrocatalysis and desalination methods.
This Special Issue aims to highlight how these novel carbon-based composites provide solutions to overcome the wastewater pollution by providing enhanced efficiency, reusability and selectivity. It will serve as a pivotal platform for scientists and researchers in achieving knowledge on recent advancements that bridges material science with environmental engineering and providing solutions for more effective, economical and sustainable environmental remediations.
Dr. Mohammad Akram
Dr. Kestutis Baltakys
Dr. Zahira Bano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon-based materials
- graphene
- CNTs
- water remediation
- wastewater treatment
- desalination
- water purification
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