Treatment of environmental contamination using sepiolite: Current approaches and future potential

N Song, A Hursthouse, I McLellan, Z Wang - … Geochemistry and Health, 2021 - Springer
To evaluate the potential of sepiolite-based materials to resolve environmental pollution
problems, a study is needed which looks at the whole life cycle of material application …

High-efficiency removal of Pb (II) and Cu (II) by amidoxime functionalized silica aerogels: Preparation, adsorption mechanisms and environmental impacts analysis

Y Zhang, S Jia, X Yuan, L Ding, T Ai, K Yuan… - Separation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, a novel adsorbent was evaluated for eliminating heavy metal ions from water.
The cyano-functionalized silica aerogels (ANSA-X) were fabricated by functionalizing silica …

Lignin-facilitated growth of Ag/CuNPs on surface-activated polyacryloamidoxime nanofibers for superior antibacterial activity with improved biocompatibility

MK Haider, D Kharaghani, Y Yoshiko, IS Kim - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Nanofibers are one of the role-playing innovations of nanotechnology. Their
high surface-to-volume ratio allows them to be actively functionalized with a wide range of …

Two-step modification (sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate composites acid-base) of sepiolite (SDBS/ABsep) and its performance for remediation of Cd contaminated …

G Gao, S Xie, S Zheng, Y Xu, Y Sun - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
To enhance the remediation capability of cadmium (Cd) polluted water and soil, our
approach involved two-step modification of sepiolite (Sep) through acid-base compound …

Polyamidoxime-loaded biochar sphere with high water permeability for fast and effective recovery of uranium from seawater

Y Wang, M Cao, Q Peng, L Wang, X Cao, L Feng… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Given the plentiful uranium resources within the ocean, seawater uranium recovery holds
significant importance for facilitating sustainable nuclear power development. There has …

Adsorption of Pb2+ by inorganic liquid-treated sepiolite: Adsorption process optimization and mechanism analysis via response surface methodology

Y Gu, H Feng, B Wang, J Qiu, X Meng, L Zhang… - Microporous and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study proposes a simple modification method of sepiolite based on inorganic liquid
(which contains hydrochloric acid, sodium chloride and sodium hexametaphosphate), and …

Fabrication of epoxy functionalized MWCNTs reinforced PVDF nanocomposites with high dielectric permittivity, low dielectric loss and high electrical conductivity

S Begum, H Ullah, A Kausar, M Siddiq… - Composites Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Nanocomposites of Polyvinylidene Flouride (PVDF) with Multi-walled Carbon
Nanotubes (MWCNTs) possess excellent thermal, piezoelectric and conductive behaviors …

Removal of copper using chitosan beads embedded with amidoxime grafted graphene oxide nanohybids

A Nasir, M Inaam-ul-Hassan, A Raza, M Tahir… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study explores a biopolymer-based composite system for metal decontamination of
water using copper {Cu (II)} as a model pollutant. Novel composite beads of chitosan and …

Self-assembly of Mn (II)-amidoximated PAN polymeric beads complex as reusable catalysts for efficient and stable heterogeneous electro-fenton oxidation

X Li, L Qin, Y Zhang, Z Xu, L Tian, X Guo… - ACS applied materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A facile postsynthetic amidoxime modification method was reported on the preparation of
transition-metal ions (Mn, Fe, and Co)–polyacrylonitrile (PAN) polymeric beads complex as …

Adsorption of uranium onto amidoxime-group mesoporous biomass carbon: kinetics, isotherm and thermodynamics

Y Li, Y Dai, Z Gao, Z Li, F He, L Xu, Q Tao - Journal of Radioanalytical and …, 2022 - Springer
Biomass is one of the most important carbon raw due to high availability and low cost. In this
study mesoporous biomass carbon adsorbent derived from Luffa chemically modified with …