Recent advances on nano-adsorbents and nanomembranes for the remediation of water

N Puri, A Gupta, A Mishra - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Water is the most essential thing to life on earth but in water scarce regions of the world do
not have easy access to clean water for their daily needs. One of the major causes of clean …

A review on zeolites as cost-effective adsorbents for removal of heavy metals from aqueous environment

EI Ugwu, A Othmani, CC Nnaji - International Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
This study provides a review of the adsorption of heavy metals using zeolite. This became
necessary as the search for cost-effective remediation measures for polluted water towards …

Visible-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of dye and antibiotics by activated biochar composited with K+ doped g-C3N4: Effects, mechanisms, actual wastewater …

T Wang, J Zheng, J Cai, Q Liu, X Zhang - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
To improve the performance of graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N 4), a hotly researched metal-
free photocatalyst, for better application in the efficient removal of organic pollutants …

Wastewater—sources, toxicity, and their consequences to human health

RR Karri, G Ravindran, MH Dehghani - Soft computing techniques in solid …, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans, for their development, utilize the natural wealth rapidly; among the resources they
consume, water is being used drastically due to uncontrolled and unsustainable …

Microplastics aged in various environmental media exhibited strong sorption to heavy metals in seawater

L Gao, D Fu, J Zhao, W Wu, Z Wang, Y Su… - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
To date, the degradation of microplastics (MPs;< 5 mm) in different environments,
particularly their adsorption characteristics for coexisted metal pollutants remains to be …

Fresh biomass derived biochar with high-load zero-valent iron prepared in one step for efficient arsenic removal

L Xu, Z Shu, L Feng, J Zhou, T Li, Z Zhao… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biochar composites, as a kind of common adsorption and purification materials, are usually
prepared by carbonizing biomass firstly and then loading with adsorbent. In this study, an …

Treatment and bioresources utilization of traditional Chinese medicinal herb residues: Recent technological advances and industrial prospect

C Huang, ZX Li, Y Wu, ZY Huang, Y Hu… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has wide application and important functions in curing
many diseases, but a great number of herb residues are usually generated after its …

Bioreduction performance of Cr (VI) by microbial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and the overlooked role of tryptophan

X Luo, X Zhou, C Peng, P Shao, F Wei, S Li… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) have exhibited promising advantages in mitigating
heavy metal contamination, eg, single-valent silver (Ag (I)), trivalent gold (Au (III)), and …

Enhanced removal of Cr (VI) by reductive sorption with surface-modified Ti3C2Tx MXene nanocomposites

X Zeng, Y Wang, X He, C Liu, X Wang… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Being one of the most toxic pollutants commonly present in wastewater as soluble
hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) specie, its concomitant adsorption and chemical reduction to …

Insight into the microbial and genetic response of anammox biomass to broad range concentrations of different antibiotics: Linking performance and mechanism

F Gamoń, A Banach-Wiśniewska, I Poprawa… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotics have become emerging pollutants occurring in wastewater, influencing the
activity of microorganisms responsible for wastewater treatment. Moreover, the potential …