Biochar-Based Materials for the Removal of Organic Pollutants
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 176
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water treatment; resource recovery; pollution control; biochar; organic pollutant; environmental geochemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biochar-based materials are emerging as a “star” carbonaceous material nowadays and acknowledged as one of the most important, eco-friendly materials applied in environmental remediation. With its cost-effective and highly tunable features, an increasing number of biochars are joining the community as high-performance remedies for organic pollutants. Examples include metal-incorporated biochars, heteroatom-doped biochars, defective-engineered biochars, graphitized biochars, hierarchical porous biochars, aged biochars, etc. There are also various useful techniques involved in improving their performances in practice, including advanced oxidation processes, electrochemistry, photochemistry, and microbial processes, among all applicable processes. Overall, the popularization of biochar will not only realize and envisage “the construction of our green world via green and sustainable materials” but also provide an easily accessible option for a wide spectrum of researchers from different regions to nourish their ideas.
To further boost these targets, we propose this Special Issue on “Biochar-Based Materials for the Removal of Organic Pollutants” to provide a platform to gather innovative works focusing on the latest novel biochar-based materials for organic pollutant removal. These topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- High-performance remediation of organic pollutants in water, soils, and air based on biochar materials;
- Transformation and fate of organic pollutants on biochars;
- Continuous interactions/processes with biochars and their stability in long-term environmental applications;
- Novel fabrication, modification, and functionalization of biochars for organic pollutant removal;
- Design of efficient, sustainable, and novel systems based on biochars for organic pollutant removal in the environment;
- Environmental impacts and economic sustainability of biochars during green and sustainable remediation.
Dr. Delai Zhong
Dr. Zhonghao Wan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biochar-based materials
- organic pollutants
- material stability
- green and sustainable remediation
- carbon footprint
- environmental processes
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