A review on adsorption of heavy metals from wastewater using carbon nanotube and graphene-based nanomaterials

DG Chandran, L Muruganandam, R Biswas - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
The rampant rise in world population, industrialization, and urbanization expedite the
contamination of water sources. The presence of the non-biodegradable character of heavy …

ReaxFF reactive molecular dynamics simulations to study the interfacial dynamics between defective h-BN nanosheets and water nanodroplets

A Verma, W Zhang, ACT Van Duin - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, the authors have developed a reactive force field (ReaxFF) to investigate the
effect of water molecules on the interfacial interactions with vacancy defective hexagonal …

[HTML][HTML] Shellfish waste-derived mesoporous chitosan for impressive removal of arsenic (V) from aqueous solutions: A combined experimental and computational …

REK Billah, MA Islam, H Lgaz, EC Lima… - Arabian Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Novel shellfish waste-derived chitosan (CS) has been developed to adsorb As (V) from
simulated wastewater under evaluating adsorption process parameters. The coexistence of …

Hexagonal boron nitride: From fundamentals to applications

S Ali, PM Ismail, M Humayun, M Bououdina - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) stands out for its unique properties and structural similarities
to carbon, making it valuable across fields such as optoelectronics, nanophotonics …

Graphene-reinforced polymeric membranes for water desalination and gas separation/barrier applications

A Verma, A Parashar, ACT Van Duin - Innovations in graphene-based …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to exceptional properties and strength, 2D nanomaterials such as graphene, graphene
oxide, and hexagonal boron nitride are emerging as a potential applicant for a wide range of …

Adsorption of arsenite (As3+) ions pollution by synthesized BC2N graphene-like nanosheets: DFT investigation

R Rahimi, M Solimannejad - Materials Science in Semiconductor …, 2024 - Elsevier
Detecting As 3+ in urban and industrial wastewater is of paramount importance for
maintaining public health. Density functional theory can be utilized to investigate the …

How grain boundaries and interfacial electrostatic interactions modulate water desalination via nanoporous hexagonal boron nitride

BB Sharma, A Govind Rajan - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
To fulfill the increasing demand for drinking water, researchers are currently exploring
nanoporous two-dimensional materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), as potential …

Mechanical strength of a nanoporous bicrystalline h-BN nanomembrane in a water submerged state

BB Sharma, A Parashar - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to superior water permeability, structural stability, and adsorption capability, h-BN
nanosheets are emerging as an efficient membrane for water desalination. In order to cater …

Facile green synthesis of boroncarbonitride using orange peel; its application in high-performance supercapacitors and detection of levodopa in real samples

MS Raghu, L Parashuram, KY Kumar… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
From the past few years 2D materials have emerged as a choice of research materials in the
field of electrochemistry. Boroncarbonitride (BCN) is one such 2D material synthesized by …

High water flux with ions sieving in a desalination 2D sub-nanoporous boron nitride material

X Davoy, A Gellé, JC Lebreton, H Tabuteau… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over the past decades, desalination by reverse osmosis (RO) membranes has attracted
increasing attention. Although RO has proven its efficiency, it remains, however, relatively …