Biomass-Nanomaterial Composites for Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater treatment; membrane separation; functionalized nanomaterials; advanced oxidation process; adsorption
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Dear Colleagues,
Water crisis is challenging the global sustainable development and human health. The removal of pollutants from wastewater is an essential candidate to realize the reuse of water for overcoming the water crisis. Up to now, various materials such as granular activated carbon, zeolite, graphene oxide, metal/metal oxides, as well as the emerging nanomaterials metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs) and Mxene have been adopted for adsorption and catalytic degradation removal of pollutants. Although excellent efficiencies were achieved, the agglomeration and leaching risk of these materials are great concerns.
Recently, biomass, an environmental friendly material evolved from the forestry and agricultural residues, has attracted significant public attentions. Due to the easy access, low cost and unlimited renewability, the biomass is more advantageous than the abovementioned materials. Up to now, the biomass has been widely used in the waste treatment, catalysis and energy production. However, the efficiencies of the biomass generally lag behind the expectation, due to the shortage of active sites or low activity. Inspired by these, rationally combining the biomass and nanomaterials is a potential solution. On one hand, based on the unique pore structure and abundant chemical groups, the biomass is capable of supplying sufficient immobilizing sites for nanomaterials, which avoids the leaching and agglomeration of nanomaterials; on the other hand, the introduced nanomaterials are able to effectively enhance the adsorption/catalytic performance of the biomass. Therefore, the development of biomass-nanomaterial composites is highly desired for the advanced wastewater treatment.
The present Special Issue of “Biomass-nanomaterial composites for Wastewater Treatment” requests the papers that focus on the design, preparation and application of biomass-nanomaterial composites with high efficiency for water treatment.
Dr. Zhipeng Liao
Dr. Changjin Ou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass
- nanomaterials
- water treatment
- advanced oxidation processes
- adsorption
