Heavy metal pollution in the aquatic environment: efficient and low-cost removal approaches to eliminate their toxicity: a review

KHH Aziz, FS Mustafa, KM Omer, S Hama… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Heavy metal contamination of water sources has emerged as a major global environmental
concern, threatening both aquatic ecosystems and human health. Heavy metal pollution in …

Waste-derived biochar for water pollution control and sustainable development

M He, Z Xu, D Hou, B Gao, X Cao, YS Ok… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Biochar, a carbon-rich material made from the partial combustion of biomass wastes, is an
emerging material of interest as it can remediate pollutants and serve as a negative carbon …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of biochar as a microbial carrier for agricultural and environmental applications

S Bolan, D Hou, L Wang, L Hale… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochar can be an effective carrier for microbial inoculants because of its favourable
properties promoting microbial life. In this review, we assess the effectiveness of biochar as …

Challenges and opportunities for biochar to promote circular economy and carbon neutrality

TA Kurniawan, MHD Othman, X Liang, HH Goh… - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochar, derived from unused biomass, is widely considered for its potential to deal with
climate change problems. Global interest in biochar is attributed to its ability to sequester …

[HTML][HTML] Adsorption of pollutants from wastewater by biochar: a review

N Jagadeesh, B Sundaram - Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochar is a functional material prepared under controlled thermal decomposition of organic
feedstocks from crops, forestry residues, sewage sludge, algal biomass, and poultry manure …

Applications of water-stable metal-organic frameworks in the removal of water pollutants: A review

S Zhang, J Wang, Y Zhang, J Ma, L Huang, S Yu… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Because the pollutants produced by human activities have destroyed the ecological balance
of natural water environment, and caused severe impact on human life safety and …

Recent progress and future directions of biomass-derived hierarchical porous carbon: Designing, preparation, and supercapacitor applications

Y Yin, Q Liu, Y Zhao, T Chen, J Wang, L Gui… - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the past decades, fossil energy depletion, environmental pollution, and greenhouse gas
emissions have resulted in serious health threats and ecological imbalances, which prompt …

Biochar as a low-cost adsorbent for aqueous heavy metal removal: A review

B Qiu, X Tao, H Wang, W Li, X Ding, H Chu - Journal of Analytical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
As an efficient and low-cost adsorbent, biochar has attracted extensive attention and
research in the field of heavy metal pollution water treatment due to its superiority in heavy …

Biocarbon materials

AK Mohanty, S Vivekanandhan, O Das… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Biocarbons are carbonaceous solids derived from renewable and sustainable feedstocks
and their combinations through thermochemical conversion at high temperatures (> 350° C) …

Recent advances in activated carbon modification techniques for enhanced heavy metal adsorption

M Mariana, AK Hps, EM Mistar, EB Yahya… - Journal of Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
The contamination of water with heavy metals is a global issue. Its water solubility and non-
degradability nature convert it into a potential threat to human health as well as flora and …