Serious environmental and human health problems caused by the abuse of antibiotics have attracted worldwide concern. Recently, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with high porosity have drawn wide attention for their effects in the adsorption and...
The development of sustainable and efficient adsorbent materials for tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH) removal is of great importance for wastewater treatment. Structural characterizations (XRD and FTIR) confirmed successful lignin carbonization and t...
In this study, a composite adsorbent (CS-ABnt) based on activated bentonite and chitosan was prepared using a simple coating method in the form of beads designed to combine high adsorption performance with the ease of solid–liquid separation ty...
Green nanomaterials have attracted considerable attention for environmental monitoring due to their sustainability and multifunctional properties. In this study, copper oxide nanoparticles were synthesized using pomegranate peel (pp) extract (CuO@PP)...
This study assessed the effects of tetracycline (TC) on growth of Lemna aoukikusa and Spirodela polyrhiza under batch conditions. The duckweeds were exposed to a range of 0.0–5.0 mg L−1 of TC for 7 days in a medium containing 10 mg L&minu...
Sinusoidal alternating electro-Fenton (SAEF) is a new type of advanced electrochemical oxidation technology for the treatment of refractory organic wastewater. In this research, the removal performance and degradation mechanism of tetracycline (TC) w...
Pharmaceutical contamination of water sources has become a critical environmental challenge. Bentonite (BN), a natural clay mineral, has gained attention due to its high surface area, cation exchange capacity, and cost-effectiveness, making it a prom...
Pollution caused by antibiotics has brought significant challenges to the ecological environment. To improve the efficiency of the removal of tetracycline (TC) from aqueous solutions, a composite material consisting of TiO2 and phosphoric acid-treate...
This work demonstrates a simple approach for the efficient removal of tetracycline (TC) antibiotic from an aqueous solution. The in situ-adsorption removal method involved instant precipitation formation of mixed metal hydroxides (MMHs), which could...
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a vital semiconductor that is widely used for a wide variety of purposes. It is known that this material has a wide bandgap, and this property makes it sensitive to UV radiation. This way, ZnO nanoparticles can be used as photocat...
Sugarcane bagasse ash, which is waste from the combustion process of bagasse for electricity generation, was utilized as received as a catalyst support to prepare the magnetic sugarcane bagasse ash (MBGA) with different iron-to-ash ratios using a sim...
Background/Objectives: The persistence of tetracycline residues in aquatic environments poses substantial risks to ecosystems and public health, emphasizing the need for effective removal strategies. This study examines the use of purified stevensite...
As a class of low-cost and broad-spectrum antibiotics in wide aquaculture use, residues of tetracyclines (TCs) are imperiling aquatic organisms and public health worldwide, leading to a high demand for TC removal from the aquaculture environment. In...
Persulfate (PS)-based oxidation technology is efficient in removing refractory organics from water. A novel diatomite (DIA) support Fe and Ce composite (Fe-Ce/DIA) was prepared for activating persulfate to degrade tetracycline in water. The Fe and Ce...
The generation and accumulation of discarded coal gangue (CG) have severe environmental impacts. CG can adsorb other pollutants in the aquatic environment. However, previous studies have not assessed whether CG can adsorb the emerging contaminant tet...
Antibacterial drugs are among the most commonly used medications in the world. Tetracycline is a widely used antibiotic for human and animal therapy due to its broad-spectrum activity, high effectiveness, and reasonable cost. The indications for trea...
Biochar can be used to address the excessive use of tetracycline and micronutrient chromium (Cr) in wastewater that potentially threatens human health. However, there is little information about how the biochar, made from different tropical biomass,...
15 January 2023
Simultaneously eliminating tetracycline (TC) and copper (Cu-II) from wastewater was investigated by applying a novel adsorbent fabricated by transforming spent bleaching earth (SBE) into attapulgite & carbon composites (A&Cs). Pyrolysis tempe...
The presence of antibiotic residues in aquatic environments poses a significant risk to water quality and public health, creating a need for effective and sustainable treatment technologies. In this study, a chitosan-based nanocomposite containing si...
Tetracycline antibiotics are widely used in human medical treatment, control of animal disease, and agricultural feed because of their broad spectrum of action, high efficiency, and low cost. The excessive use of antibiotics and arbitrary discharge o...
In this study, a new type of sludge-derived biochar material with high tetracycline removal efficiency, named magnetic Fe3O4 biochar, was accomplished by KOH activated and loaded with magnetic Fe3O4. The particles with spherical pellets observed by S...
Pharmaceutical contaminants such as tetracycline pose an increasing threat to aquatic ecosystems and human health as a result of their persistence in water sources and their contribution to antibiotic resistance. This study developed chitosan nanocom...
The removal of nitrate (NO3−-N) and antibiotics in aquaculture tail water is urgent and necessary. A lab-scale up-flow immobilized biofilter (I-BF) filled with polyurethane foam (PUF) carriers and a microbial consortium was developed for simult...
The possibility of removing tetracycline (TRC) from water in an integrated advanced oxidation and membrane filtration process was investigated. Ozonation and UV/H2O2 photooxidation were applied for the destruction of TRC. Six oxidation products (OPs)...
27 June 2019
The removal of tetracycline antibiotics from water is currently an important environmental issue. Here we prepared an iron-loaded granular activated carbon catalyst (GAC-Fe) through a one-step calcination method to remove tetracycline antibiotics fro...
The prevalence of tetracycline (TC) in aquatic environments has raised increasing concern due to its high ecotoxicology risk. The application of microalgae in the removal of antibiotics is a competitive alternative technology. However, the removal me...
19 July 2018
Antibiotics pose potential ecological risks in the water environment, necessitating their effective removal by reliable technologies. Adsorption is a conventional process to remove such chemicals from water without byproducts. However, finding cheap...
Tetracycline is often used in treating various diseases or infections, which also leads to severe environmental threats due to its toxicity, durability, and low biodegradation. Meanwhile, although ultrasound (US)-assisted activation of persulfate (PS...
To disclose the effect of crystal plane on the adsorption-photocatalytic activity of MnS, octahedral MnS was prepared via the hydrothermal route to enhance the adsorption and photocatalytic efficiencies of tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH) in visible...
Tetracycline (TC) is widely used in medicine and livestock farming. TC is difficult to degrade and tends to persist and accumulate in aquatic environments, and it has gradually become an emerging pollutant. Biochar (BC) has strong potential for remov...
The widespread use of tetracycline (TC) poses potential hazards to ecosystems and human health. In this study, ZIF-67 was successfully synthesized using a room-temperature static synthesis method and applied to the efficient removal of TC from water....
A two-step hydrothermal method was used to first obtain a SrTiO3/TiO2 composite then to dope the composite with Bi, Ni and Bi/Ni. Morphology, crystalline structures, surface valances and optical features of SrTiO3/TiO2 and Bi-, Ni-, Bi/Ni-doped SrTiO...
The co-contamination of nitrate nitrogen (NO3−-N) and tetracycline (TC) in aquaculture water has caused serious environmental and health problems. Bioremediation is a promising approach for the removal of NO3−-N and TC. However, free bact...
19 November 2019
The removal of tetracycline (TC) from solution is an important environmental issue. Here we prepared an adsorbent hydrous ferric oxide (HFO) by adjusting a FeCl3·6H2O solution to neutral pH. HFO was characterized by a surface area analyzer, X-...
With the advancement of industrialization and urbanization, the arbitrary emission of sewage containing TC-tetracycline and hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) possesses a serious threat to both ecological–environment and public health. However, devel...
Waste reutilization is always highly desired in the environmental engineering and science community. In this study, Fe-SCG biochar was functionalized by modifying spent coffee grounds (SCG) with magnetite (Fe3+) at 700 °C and applied for the oxidativ...
Emerging xenobiotics, such as tetracycline (TC), pose significant risks to both the environment and human health. Adsorption is a recognized method for removing these contaminants, and in this study, fly ash (FA), a by-product of coal combustion, was...
Water pollution induced by the tetracycline (TC) has caused global increasing attention owing to its extensive use, environmental persistence, and potential harm for human health. Adsorption and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have been promising...
The soil pollution of agricultural lands is increasingly being caused by the widely used antibiotic tetracycline (TC) in the animal husbandry industry. Soil microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) provide a promising strategy for the bioremediation of contamina...
The adsorptive removal of tetracycline (TC) in aqueous solution, a widely used antibiotic, was investigated using activated carbon derived from cotton textile waste. The valorization of textile waste provides a sustainable strategy that not only redu...
The disposal and treatment of antibiotic residues is a recognized challenge due to the huge production, high moisture content, high processing costs, and residual antibiotics, which caused environmental pollution. Antibiotic residues contained valuab...
The mineralization of tetracycline by electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs) as well as the study of the toxicity of its intermediates and degradation products are presented. Electro-Fenton (EF), anodic oxidation (AO), and electro-Fento...
To address the worsening environmental pollution caused by the large-scale release of tetracycline (TC) into the environment, this study developed an advanced oxidation system utilizing ultraviolet (UV)-activated peroxyacetic acid (PAA) for the remov...
For the first time, 3D chitin scaffolds from the marine demosponge Aplysina archeri were used for adsorption and immobilization of laccase from Trametes versicolor. The resulting chitin–enzyme biocatalytic systems were applied in the removal of...
Chemical modification of biochars can improve their adsorption capacity relative to antibiotics, posing a serious threat to the environment. Therefore, this research is aimed at the treatment of sunflower husk biochar (BC) by vitamin C, hydrogen pero...
In this study, the optimal conditions and effects of external factors on tetracycline adsorption by magnetic multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MMWCNTs) were established by a response surface methodology for the first time. Batch adsorption experiments s...
Tetracycline has been widely used as an efficient broad-spectrum antibiotic, while its long-term environmental pollution characteristics have gradually gained recognition and attention, highlighting the urgent need to identify a low-cost and effectiv...
The potential ecological risks associated with tetracycline hydrochloride (TC) in water motivate the development of effective, reusable adsorbents. Here, zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) is prepared at room temperature and evaluated for TC...
Novel hybrid core-shell structures, in which up-converting (UC) NaYF4:Yb,Tm core converts near-infrared (NIR) to visible (Vis) light via multiphoton up-conversion processes, while anatase TiO2-acetylacetonate (TiO2-Acac) shell ensures absorption of t...
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) can be used as an adsorbent to efficiently adsorb organic pollutants. However, ZIF nanoparticles are easy to form aggregates, hampering the effective and practical application in practical adsorption. In this st...
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