Biochar-clay, biochar-microorganism and biochar-enzyme composites for environmental remediation: a review

M Lin, F Li, X Li, X Rong, K Oh - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2023 - Springer
Worldwide pollution of waters and soils is a rising health issue calling for advanced
decontamination methods such as adsorption of contaminants on biochar because biochar …

Nanobiochar for the remediation of contaminated soil and water: challenges and opportunities

M Jiang, L He, NK Niazi, H Wang, W Gustave… - Biochar, 2023 - Springer
Although research on biochar has received increasing attention for environmental and
agricultural applications, the significance of nanobiochar for environmental pollutant …

Biochar aging: mechanisms, physicochemical changes, assessment, and implications for field applications

L Wang, D O'Connor, J Rinklebe, YS Ok… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biochar has triggered a black gold rush in environmental studies as a carbon-rich material
with well-developed porous structure and tunable functionality. While much attention has …

Application of biochars in the remediation of chromium contamination: Fabrication, mechanisms, and interfering species

C Zheng, Z Yang, M Si, F Zhu, W Yang, F Zhao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr) is one of the most toxic pollutants that has accumulated in terrestrial and
aqueous systems, posing serious risks towards living beings on a worldwide scale. The …

Nanobiochar-rhizosphere interactions: implications for the remediation of heavy-metal contaminated soils

X Zhang, M Wells, NK Niazi, N Bolan, S Shaheen… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil heavy metal contamination has increasingly become a serious environmental issue
globally, nearing crisis proportions. There is an urgent need to find environmentally friendly …

Synthesis, characteristics and mechanistic insight into the clays and clay minerals-biochar surface interactions for contaminants removal-A review

M Arif, G Liu, B Yousaf, R Ahmed, S Irshad… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Biochar (BC), a low-cost, porous and carbon-rich material, exhibits excellent
potential as an adsorbent in the immobilization and removal of environmental contaminants …

Removal of methylene blue from aqueous solutions by biochar prepared from the pyrolysis of mixed municipal discarded material

J Hoslett, H Ghazal, N Mohamad, H Jouhara - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the adsorption of organic compounds in aqueous solution to biochar
adsorbent, using methylene blue as an indicator for adsorption. Biochar was produced by …

Modern carbon–based materials for adsorptive removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from water and wastewater

VI Isaeva, MD Vedenyapina, AY Kurmysheva… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Currently, a serious threat for living organisms and human life in particular, is water
contamination with persistent organic and inorganic pollutants. To date, several techniques …

Effect of three artificial aging techniques on physicochemical properties and Pb adsorption capacities of different biochars

L Tan, Z Ma, K Yang, Q Cui, K Wang, T Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biochar is beneficial for soil amendment, but further research is still required on changes in
its physicochemical properties during aging, especially in oxygen-containing functional …

Sorption of five organic compounds by polar and nonpolar microplastics

L Zhao, L Rong, J Xu, J Lian, L Wang, H Sun - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) could act as a vector for various kinds of pollutants due to their small
size. Compared to nonpolar and nondegradabale MPs, the sorption of organic pollutants on …