Nanoscale Adsorbents for the Removal of Heavy Metals and Dyes
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 10
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Interests: ionic interactions; acid-base properties; adsorption; green technologies; nanoparticles
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Dear Colleagues,
Various remediation techniques are available to prevent pollution episodes originating from effluents. Among these techniques, adsorption has attracted scientists’ attention, particularly in recent decades, with intense work being conducted in the production of cost-effective adsorbents. Sorption processes consist of the sequestration of one or more species of interest on the surface of a solid, known as a sorbent. Being a surface phenomenon, it is clear that nanosorbents can constitute the next step in the research of sorption. Nanoparticles, for which surface interactions are enhanced, owing to the large surface/volume ratio of these systems, can be considered the definitive evolution in the development of sorbents. However, the practical manipulation of nanosorbents, subsequent separation after sorption, and the possibility of the regeneration of nanosorbents are still limitations that need to be fully explored. In this Special Issue, the state of the art in nanosorbents for metal and/or dye pollution remediation will be analyzed.
Dr. José Luis Pereira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanoscale
- sorbents
- pollution
- surface phenomena
- heavy metals
- dye
- regeneration
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