Environmental Functional Materials for Pollutant Separation and Remediation
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials in Separation Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2026 | Viewed by 582
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-efficiency and low-carbon treatment of wastewater and resource recovery (advanced oxidation and adsorption) based on new environmental functional materials; high-value resource treatment of solid waste
Interests: pollution control chemistry; environment functional material
Interests: environmental functional materials; clean production technologies and concepts; reduction in heavy metal sources
Interests: design of functional materials for photocatalytic/electrocatalytic H2O2 production; aimed at energy and environmental remediation applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the rapid development of technology and society, an abundance of new challenges are being faced in polluted water treatment processes, such as emerging pollutants (pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), fluorochemicals, micro-nano plastics, etc.), complex components, and extreme environments (high-salinity), etc. Fortunately, the development of novel environmental functional materials for adsorption, coagulation, advanced oxidation, photo-catalysis, electrocatalysis, piezoelectric catalysis, membrane filtration, and bio-treatment technologies supply the potential methods to solve these challenges. Certainly, the modification of the corresponding treatment devices related to these novel functional materials will further accelerate problem solving. Consequently, this topic is established to comprehensively collect the latest studies about the modification and application of functional materials and their related devices for treatment of polluted or wastewater. In this way, the main and potential prospective design perspectives and modification methods for new and efficient wastewater treatment technology may be collated and shared.
Dr. Kunlun Yang
Prof. Dr. Jian Mei
Dr. Feilong Zhang
Dr. Jingzhen Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental functional materials
- novel treatment technology
- water treatment
- emerging pollutants
- modification and application
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