Removal of emerging contaminants from the environment by adsorption

EC Lima - Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2018 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants (EC's) are pollutants of growing concern. They are mainly organic
compounds such as: pesticides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, hormones …

Role of nanomaterials in water treatment applications: a review

C Santhosh, V Velmurugan, G Jacob, SK Jeong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Water pollution by various toxic contaminants has become one of the most serious problems
worldwide. Various technologies have been used to treat water and waste water including …

Graphene and graphene oxide-based composites for removal of organic pollutants: a review

K Thakur, B Kandasubramanian - Journal of Chemical & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Graphene, graphene oxide (GO), and their composites have been prominently utilized for
wastewater purification because of their adsorption, oxidation, and catalytic properties …

Sustainable efficient adsorbent: alkali-acid modified magnetic biochar derived from sewage sludge for aqueous organic contaminant removal

L Tang, J Yu, Y Pang, G Zeng, Y Deng, J Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Municipal sewage sludge (MS)-derived biochar shows low-cost superiority as a potential
adsorbent in organic contaminants removal, but limited by its poor adsorption capacity and …

Graphene and graphene-based nanocomposites used for antibiotics removal in water treatment: A review

M Li, Y Liu, G Zeng, N Liu, S Liu - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to their extensive application in human and veterinary medicine, antibiotics have been
found worldwide and studied as new pollutants in the aquatic environment. In order to …

Application of graphene-based materials for removal of tetracyclines using adsorption and photocatalytic-degradation: A review

M Minale, Z Gu, A Guadie, DM Kabtamu, Y Li… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tetracyclines are extensively used to treat human and animal infectious diseases due to its
effective antimicrobial activities. About 70–90% of its parent materials are released into the …

Adsorption of organic contaminants by graphene nanosheets: A review

G Ersan, OG Apul, F Perreault, T Karanfil - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Graphene nanosheets (GNS) such as graphenes and graphene oxides (GOs) have been
widely investigated as next-generation adsorbents in both water and wastewater treatment …

Adsorptive removal of antibiotics from aqueous solution using carbon materials

F Yu, Y Li, S Han, J Ma - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
Antibiotics, an important type of environmental contamination, have attracted many
researchers to the study of their removal from aqueous solutions. Adsorption technology is a …

Adsorption of organic pollutants by nanomaterial-based adsorbents: An overview

AM Awad, R Jalab, A Benamor, MS Nasser… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanomaterial-based adsorbents have garnered increasing attention in water and
wastewaters treatment applications due to their attractive properties and strong adsorption …

Antibacterial applications of graphene-based nanomaterials: recent achievements and challenges

H Ji, H Sun, X Qu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Graphene has emerged as a novel green broad-spectrum antibacterial material, with little
bacterial resistance and tolerable cytotoxic effect on mammalian cells. It exerts its …