Unmodified/Modified Materials for Water Depollution
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 44
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Interests: power plant ash in unmodified/modified forms; layered double hydroxides in unmodified/modified forms; magnetic composites; material characterization; wastewater treatment; adsorption; pollutants; isotherm, kinetics, and thermodynamic evaluation; waste recycling
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Dear Colleagues,
The water depollution field is intensively studied by researchers worldwide and, in the future, this area of interest will certainly be fully considered. The industrial sectors release various pollutants in natural water sources, including heavy metals, dyes, or phenolic compounds which can affect human health. In the literature, different wastewater treatment methods are reported. However, the material involved for water depollution is one of the most important parameters, regardless of the method. If this material is easy to synthesize—eventually at a low cost—and fulfills the circular economy (CE) concept, it can be successfully employed in wastewater treatment.
Recently, scientific research focused on the study of modified materials’ capacity for water depollution. However, these materials can be used for water treatment in their unmodified form as well.
This Special Issue, entitled “Unmodified/Modified Materials for Water Depollution”, aims to consider materials in both of their forms, unmodified and modified, for the treatment of wastewater contaminated with different pollutants, such as heavy metals, dyes, phenolic compounds, and pharmaceutical products.
The publication types considered for submission are original research manuscripts and reviews, alongside communication articles.
Dr. Gabriela Buema
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- unmodified/modified materials
- characterization
- contaminant removal
- water depollution
- mechanism removal
- regeneration
- circular economy
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