Removal of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from water and wastewater by adsorption and electrocoagulation process

FE Titchou, H Zazou, H Afanga, J El Gaayda… - Groundwater for …, 2021 - Elsevier
The intensification of industrial activities significantly increases the distribution of toxic
substances and other non-biodegradable pollutants from industrial wastewater to the …

Next-generation multifunctional carbon–metal nanohybrids for energy and environmental applications

D Wang, NB Saleh, W Sun, CM Park… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanotechnology has unprecedentedly revolutionized human societies over the past
decades and will continue to advance our broad societal goals in the coming decades. The …

Size-dependent transport and retention of micron-sized plastic spheres in natural sand saturated with seawater

Z Dong, Y Qiu, W Zhang, Z Yang, L Wei - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
A series of one-dimensional column experiments were conducted to investigate the
transport and retention of micron-sized plastic spheres (MPs) with diameters of 0.1–2.0 μm …

Role of surface functionalities of nanoplastics on their transport in seawater-saturated sea sand

Z Dong, L Zhu, W Zhang, R Huang, XW Lv, X Jing… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
The transport and retention of nanoplastics (NP, 200 nm nanopolystyrene) functionalized
with surface carboxyl (NPC), sulfonic (NPS), low-density amino (negatively charged, NPA−) …

Transport of nanoparticles in porous media and its effects on the co-existing pollutants

X Ling, Z Yan, Y Liu, G Lu - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanomaterials are widely used in daily life owing to their superior characteristics. The
release and transport of nanoparticles (NPs) in the environment is inevitable during their …

Protein corona-mediated transport of nanoplastics in seawater-saturated porous media

Z Dong, Y Hou, W Han, M Liu, J Wang, Y Qiu - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The offshore aquaculture environment is a potential water area with high concentrations of
tiny plastics and feeding proteins. In this study, the negatively charged bovine serum …

Vertical transport and retention behavior of polystyrene nanoplastics in simulated hyporheic zone

X Ling, Z Yan, G Lu - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The ecological risk of microplastics (MPs) usually depends on their environmental behavior,
however, few studies focused on the impact of hydrodynamic perturbations on the fate of …

Cotransport of nanoplastics (NPs) with fullerene (C60) in saturated sand: Effect of NPs/C60 ratio and seawater salinity

Z Dong, W Zhang, Y Qiu, Z Yang, J Wang, Y Zhang - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoplastics (NPs) have been identified as newly emerging particulate contaminants. In
marine environments, the interaction between NPs and other engineered nanoparticles …

Porous media transport of iron nanoparticles for site remediation application: A review of lab scale column study, transport modelling and field-scale application

A Mondal, BK Dubey, M Arora, K Mumford - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Injection of surface modified zero valent iron nanoparticles for in situ remediation of soil,
contaminated with an array of pollutants has attracted great attention due to the high …

Size effect of graphene oxide from quantum dot to nanoflake on the mobility of nanoplastics in seawater-saturated sand

Z Dong, Z Chen, J Rui, W Li, Y Qiu - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine sedimentary environment serves as an important sink of terrigenous nanoplastics
(NP) and graphene oxides (GO). In this study, we discovered that GO of varying sizes …