Nano-Based Materials for Water Treatment
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editors
Interests: in situ material structural characterization; structure-activity mechanism analysis of functional materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental pollution poses a growing threat due to population expansion and urbanization. The aquatic environment usually suffers from heavy metal and organic pollutant contamination due to insufficient management, leading a great threat to human health. In recent years, many studies have proven that nano-based materials are available in water purification such as catalysts and adsorbents. However, their treatment efficiency, stability, and cost should be further improved before their large-scale application for practical environmental modification.
This Special Issue will present a series of environmentally functional nanomaterial developments, including their synthesis method, degradation effect evaluation, new mechanism discussion, stability testing, and cost accounting. Hence, we invite submissions of original research manuscripts or review articles covering the current progress on nano-based materials for environmental modification, providing the basis of scientific research for practical applications. Potential research content includes, but are not limited to, the following:
- Capacitive deionization (CDI) nanoelectrode materials for removing heavy metal ions from wastewater;
- Development of nanocatalysts for the efficient oxidative degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater treatment;
- The sp2/sp3 hybridization carbon-based nanomaterial modification for wastewater treatment improvement;
- Controllable and green synthesis of metal-organic frameworks or covalent organic frameworks for prolonging chemical stability in complex water statuses;
- Improvement in the current water treatment technologies based on new nanomaterials or novel system development.
Dr. Xuezhen Feng
Dr. Jiaxiang Liang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- organic pollutant degradation
- water treatment
- heavy metal removal
- nanomaterials
