Advances in Algae Materials and Their Application in Bioremediation

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, the harmful effect of many toxic pollutants on ecosystem components has increased rapidly. Natural environmental resources and global public health policy are in great danger because of emerging pollutants from the sewage, industrial, agricultural, and aquaculture wastewaters, including organic matter, heavy metals, dyes, pesticides, nitrogenous (NH⁴, NO₃, NO₂, etc.), and pharmaceutical compounds. Therefore, it is necessary to find suitable, efficient, and sustainable materials to remove these pollutants from different effluents, as well as different aquatic ecosystems. Despite the fact that there are many chemicals, physicals, and biological processes to remove these pollutants, their efficiency still needs to be improved.

There are many chemical and physical methods used to remove these pollutants from synthetic and real effluent water. So far, most of these methods are unsafe, high-cost, low-efficientcy, applied only with extremely low concentrations of pollutants, and environmentally unfriendly. Algae (Microalgae and seaweeds) are globally among the most efficient biological materials used in pollutant removal from real and industrial wastewater. Due to their bioactive materials, algal cells are sustainable, promising, and low-cost materials that have great biological functions in bioremediation. Any form of microalgae and seaweeds (live, dried, nanoparticles, microalgae-free-lipid, seaweed-free-polysaccharides, etc.), can improve the ability to efficiently remove many pollutants from several effluent wastewaters.

To improve the performance of real and industrial effluent treatments, the current Special Issue aims to provide up-to-date information, exchange innovative ideas, and publish excellent results on the effectiveness of advanced strategies based on the use of algal materials that are valuable in bioremediation. In this Special Issue, all colleagues are invited to submit their research articles, review articles, and communications. All submitted manuscripts are subject to careful editorial selection and peer review.

Dr. Mohamed Ashour
Dr. Ahmed Eid Alprol
Dr. Abdallah Tageldein Mansour
Guest Editors

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• seaweeds
• microalgae
• nanoparticles
• characterizations
• absorbents
• aqua-pollutant
• dyes
• isotherms