Toward selective oxidation of contaminants in aqueous systems

Z Yang, J Qian, C Shan, H Li, Y Yin… - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The presence of diverse pollutants in water has been threating human health and aquatic
ecosystems on a global scale. For more than a century, chemical oxidation using strongly …

Membrane-based nanoconfined heterogeneous catalysis for water purification: A critical review✰

QV Ly, L Cui, MB Asif, W Khan, LD Nghiem, Y Hwang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Progress in heterogeneous advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) is hampered by several
issues including mass transfer limitation, limited diffusion of short-lived reactive oxygen …

Water decontamination via nonradical process by nanoconfined Fenton-like catalysts

T Liu, S Xiao, N Li, J Chen, X Zhou, Y Qian… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is an urgent need to develop effective and sustainable solutions to reduce water
pollution. Heterogeneous Fenton-like catalysts are frequently used to eliminate …

Angstrom-confined catalytic water purification within Co-TiOx laminar membrane nanochannels

C Meng, B Ding, S Zhang, L Cui, KK Ostrikov… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The freshwater scarcity and inadequate access to clean water globally have rallied
tremendous efforts in developing robust technologies for water purification and …

Nanoconfined catalytic membranes assembled by cobalt-functionalized graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets for rapid degradation of pollutants

W Zhang, S Zhang, C Meng, Z Zhang - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2023 - Elsevier
Sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation processes (SR-AOPs) constitute an efficient
method for the effective removal of organic pollutants in water bodies. A novel cobalt …

Single-atom cobalt incorporated in a 2D graphene oxide membrane for catalytic pollutant degradation

X Wu, K Rigby, D Huang, T Hedtke… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We introduce a new graphene oxide (GO)-based membrane architecture that hosts cobalt
catalysts within its nanoscale pore walls. Such an architecture would not be possible with …

Superior Fenton-like and photo-Fenton-like activity of MoS2@ TiO2/N-doped carbon nanofibers with phase-regulated and vertically grown MoS2 nanosheets

Y Li, B Yu, B Liu, X Yu, G Qin, M Fan, Y Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) nanosheets were recently found to have great potential in
heterogeneous Fenton-like reactions, but the synergistic effects of its phase and vertical …

Subtle tuning of nanodefects actuates highly efficient electrocatalytic oxidation

Y Gao, S Liang, B Liu, C Jiang, C Xu, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Achieving controllable fine-tuning of defects in catalysts at the atomic level has become a
zealous pursuit in catalysis-related fields. However, the generation of defects is quite …

Spatial confinement: A green pathway to promote the oxidation processes for organic pollutants removal from water

H Yi, E Almatrafi, D Ma, X Huo, L Qin, L Li, X Zhou… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic pollutants removal from water is pressing owing to the great demand for clean
water. Oxidation processes (OPs) are the commonly used method. However, the efficiency of …

Trends, risks and opportunities in environmental nanotechnology

X Huang, M Auffan, MJ Eckelman… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs), intentionally synthesized materials with sizes less than
100 nm in at least one dimension, have numerous potential environmental applications …