Recent Advances in Metal Ion Separation
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 1181
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid technological development that we have witnessed in recent years has caused an increase in demand for metals, either in their extraction or recovery approach. An essential step in the production of metals is their separation from aqueous solutions obtained from leaching ore or recycling waste. The adsorption is considered an effective technique for the recovery or removal of metals from aqueous media. It offers excellent workability in process operation and design, and the sorbent can be reused after proper regeneration (multicycling application). Many traditional sorbents, including inorganic clays/zeolites, activated carbon, and polymeric resins, have been used for metal ion separation. Recently, advanced sorbents, such as modified natural inorganic/organic materials, modified carbons/biochar, agricultural waste (biosorbent), metal–organic frameworks, synthesized polymers, magnetic sorbents, hydrogels, and nanosorbents, were successfully applied in the separation of metal ions.
For this Special Issue in Metals, we welcome reviews and articles in the areas of separation of metal ions, including new and modified sorbent preparation, characterization and applications, mechanism elucidation, and theoretical calculations.
This Special Issue will be focused on, but not limited to, advances in the following areas:
- Various separation techniques for metal ion removal;
- Synthesis and characterization of advanced separation materials;
- Physical and chemical modifications and functionalization of sorbents;
- Theoretical considerations of interactions between dissolved metals and solid surfaces;
- Adsorption mechanism of metal cations, metal oxyanions, and metal complexes;
- Process design in static and flow systems;
- Automatization of the adsorption processes;
- Miniaturization of adsorption and solid-phase extraction of metals;
- Novel applications of sorbents for metal ion separation.
This open access Special Issue aims to outline the current state of the art in the area of separation of metal ion.
Dr. Maja Branko Đolić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adsorption
- cations
- oxyanions
- removal
- heavy metals
- extraction
- leaching
- hydrometallurgy
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