Recent Development of Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment and Sustainable Environmental Protection
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 October 2025 | Viewed by 1648
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental protection; wastewater treatment; ferritization; magnetic composites; ferrites
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An in-depth study of nano-dispersed materials and the composite compounds based on them has shown promise in their use in the latest environmental technologies. Modern challenges concern water purification not only from traditional pollutants, but also heavy metals, suspended particles, nitrates and phosphates. Challenges relating water purification from organic substances such as microplastics, pesticides, surfactants, phenols and their derivatives, are coming to the fore. The use of nanomaterials opens up opportunities for the neutralization of particularly dangerous organic pollutants. The advent of modern photocatalysts has opened a new era in wastewater treatment. The use of adsorbents synthesized based on nanoparticles and membrane technologies using modern materials has also posed several problems for technologists and materials scientists. Today, the problems of targeted synthesis of nano-sized compounds with complex structures are becoming more acute due to the wide industrial demand. Along with the size factor, the macro- and microstructure of nanoparticles plays an equally important role. However, the most common methods for their preparation have disadvantages that lead to fluctuations in quality and, for the most part, do not provide the controlled synthesis of inorganic systems with predictable properties.
Green energy is also an important issue related to sustainable development. The development of nanomaterials for use as catalysts for the synthesis of hydrogen and oxygen, including via electrochemical means, is very important. However, the problem of domestic wastewater treatment is in the foreground. Cleaning gas emissions is now impossible without the use of nanomaterials. One of the promising sources of raw materials today is industrial waste.
Thus, the potential range of issues addressed in the collection includes the following:
- Advanced nanotechnologies and properties of nanomaterials;
- Adsorbents, nanocomposites and production technologies, and their properties;
- Nanoplastics for methods of neutralization;
- Membrane cleaning methods using nanomaterials;
- Electrocatalysts and their use in green energy;
- Nanotechnology and light pollution;
- Purification of gas emissions;
- Recycling of solid industrial waste to obtain nanomaterials.
Dr. Liliya Frolova
Dr. Butyrina Tetiana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photocatalysis
- synthesis and application of nanomaterials
- green energy
- microplastic
- adsorbents
- recycling
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