Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment from Organic Pollutants by Nanostructure Materials
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 8746
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physical chemistry; materials chemistry; spectroscopy; photoelectron spectroscopy
Interests: heterogeneous photocatalysis for the purification of water from organic dyes and pharmaceutical drugs; synthesis and characterization of pure and modified semiconductor catalysts (particles, powders, films); tribocatalysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Water is the most important natural resource in the world and the availability of safe drinking water is a high priority issue for human existence and quality of life. Unfortunately, water resources are coming under increasing pressure due to population growth, over-use and wastage. AOPs are particularly attractive as a method for removing organic pollutants from water using nanostructure materials because they utilize hydroxyl radicals as a major oxidizing agent. Therefore, they can destroy hazardous contaminants, not simply transfer them to another phase, as do air stripping and granular activated carbon adsorption.
The nanostructure semiconductor materials can degrade most kinds of persistent organic pollutants, such as detergents, dyes, pesticides and pharmaceutical drugs, under light illumination. Semiconductors can act as sensitizers for light-induced redox processes due to the electronic structure of the metal atoms.
The aim of the Special Issue “Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment from Organic Pollutants by Nanostructure Materials: Latest Advances, Challenges, and Prospects” is to serve scientists through the Latest Advances, Challenges, and Prospects in solving environmental problems. In this context, we request you submit your articles to our Special Issue on or before October 31, 2023, so that it may be included article in the upcoming issue.
Dr. George Tzvetkov
Dr. Nina Kaneva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced oxidation technologies
- nanostructure materials
- organic pollutants
- water purification
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