Green and Sustainable Nanomaterials for Emerging Pollutant Remediation
A Special Issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991) belonging to the section "Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 1607
Editors
Interests: MBR; membrane fouling; bacterial–microalgal consortium; mariculture wastewater treatment; microbiomics; emerging contaminants degradation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: mariculture wastewater treatment; theory and technology of photogranule; membrane photobioreactor
Interests: wastewater treatment; membrane
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The prevalence of emerging pollutants, including antibiotics, microplastics, environmental hormones, heavy metals, pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs), has been continuously increasing. This has contributed to rapid advances in the green synthesis, functional modification, performance optimization and mechanism exploration of sustainable functional materials, represented by modified ceramic membrane materials and high-efficiency photocatalytic nanomaterials, which feature high removal efficiency, excellent selectivity, low energy consumption, environmental friendliness, and recyclability for emerging pollutant abatement. This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the green synthesis, functional modification, mechanism elucidation, performance optimization, as well as their coupled remediation systems, for the efficient control and remediation of various emerging pollutants in diverse environmental matrices.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Removal performance, degradation pathway and underlying mechanism of antibiotics, microplastics, environmental hormones, heavy metals, PPCPs and other typical emerging pollutants by green functional nanomaterials
- Functional modification of ceramic membranes using sustainable nanomaterials
- Application and regulation of sustainable nanomaterials in the remediation of emerging pollutants in algae–bacteria symbiotic systems
- Novel application scenarios, pilot-scale tests and engineering practice of green and sustainable nanomaterials in emerging pollutant control
Applications of photocatalytic materials in water and wastewater treatment systems.
Dr. Binghan Xie
Dr. Jing Zhu
Guest Editors
Dr. Rui Wang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- emerging pollutants
- green synthesis
- functional modification
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