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Emerging Sustainable Materials for Environmental Engineering

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 November 2023) | Viewed by 1378

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1. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology of Al-Hoceima, BP 34., Ajdir, Al-Hoceima 32003, Morocco
2. ERCI2A, FSTH, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan 93000, Morocco
Interests: biomaterials; separation-chemo-sensing materials; hybrid materials; life cycle assessment
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“Chemistry, Informatics, and Artificial Intelligence” Research Team, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Al Hoceima, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
Interests: separation materials; wastewater treatment; electrochemical materials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As environmental concerns have become more and more pressing in our society in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important consideration in the design of sustainable materials. In this sense, the scientific community intends to respond to this growing need with several research works entirely dedicated to the eco-design of materials and their environmental aspects for sustainable applications.

Materials and the environment deal in detail with topics such as the use of natural resources, the life cycle of materials, their carbon footprint and the inseparable issue of energy consumption, the ecological selection of materials, legal aspects, recycling, renewable materials, and sustainable development.

The objective of this Special Issue entitled "Emerging Sustainable Materials for Environmental Engineering" is to collect and publish the latest research results aimed at overcoming environmental concerns using materials science and engineering for sustainability, combining new advances and research results in the field of advanced materials engineering and technology.

Original research on luminescent materials for medical imaging, energy storage, and conversion systems will also be considered.

Original research papers and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Preparation and characterization of sustainable materials;
  • Recycling and waste management of materials;
  • Wastewater treatment;
  • Environmental applications of green materials;
  • The life cycle of emerging materials;
  • Materials for energy production, storage, and conversion;
  • Emerging materials for oil and gas;
  • Sustainability and the environment;
  • Luminescent materials for medical imaging;

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Jalal Isaad
Dr. Charaf Laghlimi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainability
  • green materials
  • environment
  • energy
  • life cycle analysis
  • wastewater treatment
  • eco-friendly composite

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Amine-Grafted Pomegranate Peels for the Simultaneous Removal of Nitrate and Phosphate Anions from Wastewater
by Wafae Abbach, Charaf Laghlimi and Jalal Isaad
Sustainability 2023, 15(18), 13991; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813991 - 21 Sep 2023
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Abstract
Pomegranate peel (PP), a by-product of agro-food consumption, has a low adsorption capacity for nitrate and phosphate ions in aqueous media, but its surface is very rich in alcohol functional groups. In this work, the surface of pomegranate peels was functionalized by chemo-grafting [...] Read more.
Pomegranate peel (PP), a by-product of agro-food consumption, has a low adsorption capacity for nitrate and phosphate ions in aqueous media, but its surface is very rich in alcohol functional groups. In this work, the surface of pomegranate peels was functionalized by chemo-grafting 3-(2-Aminoethylamino) propyl] trimethoxy silane (AEAPTES) using the availability of alcohol groups to increase the adsorption capacity of the resulting adsorbent (PP/AEAPTES) towards nitrate and phosphate ions. The prepared PP/AEAPTES adsorbent was analyzed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Zeta potential, and X-ray photoelectron spectrometry (XPS). Under experimental conditions, the adsorption capacity of PP/AEAPTES has been found to be 124.57 mg/g and 94.65 mg/g for NO3 and PO43−, respectively, at pH 6 over a wide temperature range, and adsorption is exothermic for NO3 and endothermic for PO43−, as well as spontaneous and physical in nature. The adsorptions of NO3 and PO43− were also correctly described by the Langmuir isotherm and followed the pseudo-second-order model. The ability of PP/AEAPTES to adsorb NO3 and PO43− ions under real conditions was evaluated, and efficient regeneration and repetitive use of PP/AEAPTES was successfully achieved up to 5 cycles. Full article
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