Hydrogel-based superadsorbents for efficient removal of heavy metals in industrial wastewater treatment and environmental conservation
August 2023
Superadsorbent hydrogels have become a viable solution to the urgent problem of industrial wastewater contamination. This paper offers a thorough analysis of the most recent advancements in superadsorbent...
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Plastic wastes derived carbon materials for green energy and sustainable environmental applications
March 2022
Plastic waste has become a serious environmental issue and has attracted increasing attention. Various treatment technologies have been developed for the remediation of this waste, including degradation,...
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Modified Titanium dioxide-based photocatalysts for water treatment: Mini review
March 2024
Titanium dioxide (TiO2), recognized for its affordability, low cost, high chemical stability, and eco-friendliness, has garnered extensive research attention in recent years. But because of the TiO2...
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Strategies and technologies for sustainable plastic waste treatment and recycling
Available online 19 January 2025
Discarded plastics in natural environments contribute significantly to “white pollution” due to their high persistence and potential for bioaccumulation. Improperly managed waste plastics further exacerbate...
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CO2 capture and conversion into valuable chemicals using graphitic carbon nitride: A review
Available online 18 October 2024
Carbon dioxide emission to the atmosphere are the main cause of global warming and the accompanying climate change. Accordingly, effective approaches have to be developed/implemented to tackle CO2 emission...
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Advance of self-cleaning separation membranes for oil-containing wastewater treatment
March 2024
The formidable challenge of membrane fouling by high-viscosity oils remains a primary impediment to the sustainable application of separation membranes in treating oil-contaminated wastewater. Consequently,...
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Agricultural lignocellulose biochar material in wastewater treatment: A critical review and sustainability assessment
Available online 13 January 2025
Globally, roughly 380 trillion liters of wastewater are generated annually, with a significant portion remaining untreated due to expensive treatment and lack of expertise, consequently, leading severe...
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Recent advances in electrochemical removal and recovery of phosphorus from water: A review
March 2022
Phosphorus (P) is an essential microelement for biota. Phosphate minerals obtained through subsurface mining are the main sources of P. Phosphate-bearing rocks are nonrenewable and reserves are limited,...
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Recent advances in the fixed-electrode capacitive deionization (CDI): Innovations in electrode materials and applications
December 2023
Conventional capacitive deionization (CDI), originally developed as a promising desalination technique based on the formation of electric double layers (EDLs) at the surface of porous electrodes, has...
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UiO-66(Zr)-based functional materials for water purification: An updated review
August 2023
UiO-66, as a kind of classic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), was foreseen as one of the most promising MOF materials for practical water purification, benefiting from its merits of rich pores, super-huge...
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Environmental resilience with 2D materials: A futuristic perspective
December 2023
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have garnered a lot of attention in recent times due to their wide applicability in various areas. These materials exhibit a unique combination of structural and chemical...
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Strategies and applications of enhancing extracellular electron transfer in anaerobic digestion for wastewater resource recovery:A critical review
Available online 7 January 2025
Utilizing anaerobic digestion (AD) to treat wastewater while recovering the resources in the wastewater is research full of opportunities and challenges. Degradation of pollutants and the generation...
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Application of COFs in capture/conversion of CO2 and elimination of organic/inorganic pollutants
March 2023
Large amounts of various (in)organic pollutants and CO2 are released into the environment with the fast development of agriculture and industry, which results in the environmental pollution and climate...
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Metal sulfide-based catalysts in advanced oxidation processes for water decontamination
September 2022
Due to its unique physical and chemical properties, metal sulfide has been proven to be a promising ideal candidate for metal oxide catalysts and has been widely used in many catalytic fields. In recent...
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Microwave-assisted synthesis of bimetallic NiCo-MOF-74 with enhanced open metal site for efficient CO2 capture
September 2022
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) containing two different inorganic metal nodes (known as bimetallic MOFs) could exhibit enhanced CO2 adsorption compared to their monometallic counterparts. Herein, a...
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Progress of CO2 fixation using cycloaddition reaction
March 2024
Carbon dioxide, a significant greenhouse gas component, has been impacting the global climate. Photocatalytic CO2 reduction is a cost-effective and eco-friendly approach. Photocatalytic CO2 can combine...
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The role of “membrane” in membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR), membrane catalyst-film reactor (MCfR) and electrochemical membrane biofilm reactor (EMBfR): Mini review
Available online 3 December 2024
The wastewater treatment field introduces a groundbreaking technology known as the membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR), leveraging the principle of counter-diffusion between electron donors and acceptors...
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Light-response adsorption and desorption behaviors of metal–organic frameworks
March 2022
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are ideal adsorbents because of their porous structure, ultra-large specific surface area, abundant active sites, and specific surface charge. Recently, light-response...
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Treating waste with waste: New insight into phosphorus removal by graphitic carbon nitride modified water treatment sludge-based ceramsite
Available online 27 November 2024
This study developed a novel ceramsite adsorbent, combining water treatment sludge (WTS) and graphite carbon nitride, which aimed at removing phosphate from wastewater to realize the sustainable development...
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Generation and regulation of high-valent metal species in advanced oxidation processes
Available online 12 January 2025
Emerging pollutants are highly stable, with low content but great harm, and traditional water treatment methods are difficult to completely remove them. In the actual water treatment process of advanced...
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Development of ag/Ag2O/BiPO4/Bi2WO6/g-C3N4 Z-scheme photocatalyst for high-efficiency tetracycline removal: Characterization, degradation pathway and toxicity assessments
Available online 13 January 2025
Nowadays, tetracycline (TC) contamination of surface water has become a comprehensive environmental problem that threatens the health and survival of animals and humans. It is essential to develop an...
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Microenvironment modulation of carbon-based single-atom catalysts for advanced oxidation processes
Available online 14 January 2025
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are among the most effective technologies for environmental remediation, particularly in removing recalcitrant organic pollutants from water. Carbon-based single-atom...
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Recent progress on single-atom catalysts in advanced oxidation processes for water treatment
September 2022
Single-atom catalysts (SACs), consisting of metal single atoms and supporting materials, have shown remarkable potential due to their ultrahigh catalytic performances, maximum atomic utilization and...
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Immobilization of the crude enzyme extracted from Stenotrophomonas sp. GYH within modified zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8-NH2) and its application in trichloromethane removal
March 2023
Enzyme immobilization, due to its higher effective density in a limited micro space, can effectively improve the removal efficiency for some recalcitrant compounds. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have...
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Incipient wetness impregnation to prepare bismuth-modified all-silica beta zeolite for efficient radioactive iodine capture
March 2022
The economical and effective capture of radioactive iodine has always been an important field of research in the reprocessing of spent fuel. In this work, we successfully prepared a novel bismuth-modified...
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