Advanced Functional Materials for Wastewater Treatment and Purification
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials in Separation Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2024) | Viewed by 11809
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass-derived carbonaceous materials; solid waste thermal treatments; thermal responsive materials
Interests: heavy metal adsorption; seasonal characteristics of phosphorus sorption; sediment contamination control
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Dear Colleagues,
The world’s water supplies have been contaminated due to large effluents containing toxic pollutants such as dyes, heavy metals, surfactants, personal care products, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals from agricultural, industrial, and municipal resources into water streams. As such, water contamination and its treatment have emerged as an escalating challenge globally. Amongst various wastewater treatment approaches, adsorption is considered as one of the most cost-effective methods, and it also has witnessed continuous development in the case of the advancements in novel materials as adsorbents. Preferably, an adsorbent should be provided with enough binding sites that can perform appropriate adsorption for pollutants, and the most commonly used conventional adsorbents for pollutants and dye elimination are silica, alumina, activated carbon, clay, metal oxides, titania, etc. However, the performances including adsorption capacity and adsorption selectivity of those materials should be improved for efficient removal of pollutants in wastewater. The breakthrough of materials science and engineering provides innovative solutions to adsorption and separation technology, and this can be addressed through material synthesis (i.e., metal-organic frameworks, low dimensional materials, hydrogels/aerogels, composite materials, etc.) and rational structure design (i.e., surface modification, elemental doping, structural functionalization, etc.).
Hence, this special issue is aiming to cover the latest research progress in the synthesis, characterizations and applications of advanced materials for adsorption and separation related to wastewater treatments and purifications. We look forward to receiving your contributions from all over the world.
Dr. Tengyao Jiang
Dr. Wei Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater treatments
- heavy metals
- organic contaminants
- porous materials
- adsorption
- composites
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