Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology for Pollutant Detection and Removal
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 44
Editor
Interests: simulation and prediction of environmental behavior for emerging pollutants; density functional theory study on degradation of pollutants on catalyst surfaces; big data and machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Accurate detection and effective removal of environmental pollutants are particularly important for mitigating or eliminating the associated environmental risks and hazards. Nanomaterials, owing to their high specific surface area, abundant active sites, and tunable physicochemical properties, exhibit great potential for achieving highly sensitive detection and efficient removal of pollutants from the environment. Therefore, developing novel approaches with nanomaterials for pollutant detection and removal is of great significance. Rational design of magnetic nanoparticles, graphene-based materials, quantum dots, and multifunctional composite nanostructures is expected to enable selective enrichment and ultrasensitive sensing of target pollutants, while simultaneously providing enhanced adsorption capabilities or catalytic degradation, thereby establishing an integrated “detection-capture-removal” synergistic treatment system.
This Special Issue is dedicated to recent progress in nanomaterial-based environmental technologies, such as nanosensing and detection technologies (e.g., optical sensing, electrochemical sensing), adsorption and separation techniques using nanomaterials, and degradation technologies based on nanocatalysts (e.g., photocatalysis, advanced oxidation/reduction processes).
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Optical sensing based on metallic nanomaterials, quantum dots, and other nanomaterials;
- Electrochemical sensing based on carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanocomposites and other materials related to nanomaterials;
- Adsorption and separation techniques using carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxides and its derivatives, and metallic nanomaterials;
- Photocatalysis using semiconductor nanomaterials such as TiO2, g-C3N4, etc.;
- Advanced oxidation/reduction processes using Fe-based nanomaterials, carbon-based nanomaterials, etc.
Dr. Ya Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- sensing
- adsorption
- separation
- catalyst
- pollutants
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