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Nanotechnology-Based Approaches for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants from Water: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

This review examines nanotechnology-based approaches for removing emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, and microplastics from water, comparing the removal efficiencies of nanomaterial adsorbents, photocatalysts, and membrane systems against conventional treatment methods.

2025 Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology
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Nanotechnology in Wastewater Management: A New Paradigm Towards Wastewater Treatment

This review examines how nanotechnology-based methods like nano-filtration, photocatalysis, and nano-adsorbents can improve wastewater treatment. These approaches offer advantages over traditional methods, including better removal of tiny pollutants like microplastics that conventional filters miss. Improving wastewater treatment is important because treatment plants are a major pathway through which microplastics reach drinking water sources.

2021 Molecules 382 citations
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Developments in the Application of Nanomaterials for Water Treatment and Their Impact on the Environment

This review covers the application of nanomaterials for water treatment and remediation, evaluating how nanomaterial properties enable removal of pollutants including heavy metals, organic contaminants, and microplastics. It surveys the current state of research and discusses practical challenges for scaling up nanomaterial-based water treatment.

2020 Nanomaterials 196 citations
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Function of nanomaterials in the treatment of emerging pollutants in wastewater

Researchers reviewed the application of nanomaterials for treating emerging pollutants in wastewater, including microplastics, antibiotics, and endocrine disruptors. The study suggests that nanotechnology-based approaches offer promising advantages over conventional treatment methods in terms of efficiency and sustainability for addressing new types of water contaminants.

2024 IWA Publishing eBooks 3 citations
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Emerging micropollutants in aquatic ecosystems and nanotechnology-based removal alternatives: A review

This review examines emerging micropollutants in water systems, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and heavy metals, and how nanotechnology-based approaches can help remove them. These contaminants threaten drinking water safety and aquatic ecosystems worldwide. The paper evaluates various nanomaterial-based filtration and degradation methods as promising solutions for cleaning up contaminated water.

2023 Chemosphere 98 citations
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The impact of nanomaterials in enhancing wastewater treatment processes: A review

This review examines how nanomaterials can improve wastewater treatment, including the removal of emerging contaminants like microplastics that traditional methods struggle to capture. Nanoparticles, nanocomposites, and nanocatalysts can enhance pollutant removal through better filtering, chemical breakdown, and adsorption. While promising, the review also notes that nanomaterials themselves could pose environmental risks if not managed carefully during and after the treatment process.

2024 Magna Scientia Advanced Research and Reviews 19 citations
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Nanomaterials for Microplastic Removal from Wastewater: Current State of the Art Nanomaterials and Future Prospects

This review surveys recent advances in using nanomaterials to remove microplastics and nanoplastics from wastewater, since conventional treatment plants struggle to capture these tiny particles. Researchers evaluate different nanomaterial approaches including magnetic nanoparticles, photocatalysts, and membrane technologies. The study identifies promising strategies but notes that challenges around scalability, cost, and potential environmental risks of the nanomaterials themselves still need to be addressed.

2023 ACS ES&T Water 18 citations
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Nanotechnology-based approaches for the removal of microplastics from wastewater: a comprehensive review

This review summarizes how nanotechnology-based approaches could help remove microplastics from wastewater, since conventional treatment plants are not very effective at capturing the smallest particles. Materials like metal-organic frameworks, carbon nanomaterials, and advanced membranes show promise in lab settings for filtering out microplastics. However, scaling these technologies for real-world use and ensuring the nanomaterials themselves are safe remain major challenges.

2025 Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 8 citations
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Understanding emerging contaminants in water and wastewater: A comprehensive review on detection, impacts, and solutions

This review covers emerging contaminants in water including pharmaceuticals, PFAS, microplastics, and nanomaterials that escape conventional water treatment and persist in the environment. It evaluates advanced detection techniques and newer treatment methods such as membrane filtration, advanced oxidation, and bioremediation to address these pollutants that pose ongoing risks to public health.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 34 citations
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Nanomaterials for microplastic remediation from aquatic environment: Why nano matters?

This review examines how nanomaterials such as photocatalysts, adsorbents, and membrane filters can be used to remove microplastics from aquatic environments, highlighting why nanoscale properties offer advantages over conventional remediation approaches.

2022 Chemosphere 113 citations
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Nanomaterials for microplastics remediation in wastewater: A viable step towards cleaner water

This review examines how nanomaterials, tiny engineered particles with high surface area and reactivity, can be used to remove microplastics from water more effectively than traditional methods like filtration and sedimentation. While promising, these technologies face challenges including high production costs, potential toxicity of the nanomaterials themselves, and difficulty scaling up from lab to real-world applications. Improving these methods is important because current water treatment often fails to remove the smallest and most harmful microplastic particles.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 6 citations
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Modern Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Trends, Problems, and Prospects

This review examines modern wastewater treatment technologies including mechanical, biological, and physicochemical methods, highlighting that conventional systems inadequately remove emerging micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, microplastics, and nanoparticles. The authors identify key barriers to progress including high costs, aging infrastructure, and weak governance, and advocate for integrated approaches combining membrane technologies, nanomaterials, and circular economy principles.

2025 SERIES CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
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Harnessing Nanomaterials for Water Decontamination: Insights into Environmental Impact, Sustainable Applications, and the Emerging Role of Polymeric Nanostructures

This review examines how nanomaterials can be used for water decontamination, including the removal of microplastics from aquatic environments. Researchers found that properties like large surface area and high reactivity make nanomaterials effective at addressing water pollution, though concerns remain about the environmental persistence and potential secondary effects of the nanomaterials themselves.

2026 Polymers
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Next-generation nanomaterials for environmental remediation: smart design, hybrid materials and sustainable use

Researchers reviewed advances in eco-engineered nanomaterials for remediating persistent environmental contaminants — including PFAS, microplastics, heavy metals, and pharmaceuticals — covering adsorption, photocatalytic, and magnetic recovery systems, while discussing sustainability challenges around lifecycle, toxicity, and real-world deployment.

2026 Frontiers in Chemistry
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Cutting edge technology for wastewater treatment using smart nanomaterials: recent trends and futuristic advancements

This review examines how advanced nanomaterials -- including cellulose nanocrystals, carbon nanotubes, and magnetic nanoparticles -- can be used to remove microplastics, nanoplastics, and other toxic substances from wastewater more effectively than conventional treatment methods. These "smart" nanomaterials work through absorption and adsorption and represent a promising technology for reducing the amount of plastic contamination that reaches drinking water sources.

2024 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 22 citations
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Common methodologies for treating environmental issues with nanomaterials

This review examines how nanomaterials can address environmental pollution challenges through three mechanisms -- adsorption, filtration, and degradation -- discussing their advantages over traditional treatment methods due to high specific surface area, catalytic activity, and photocatalytic properties.

2024 Applied and Computational Engineering
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Current status of using adsorbent nanomaterials for removing microplastics from water supply systems: a mini review

This review evaluates the current status and potential of adsorbent nanomaterials for removing microplastics from water supply systems, assessing their effectiveness against smaller particles that challenge conventional water treatment processes.

2025 Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
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Efficacy of Nanoparticles in Water Treatment

This overview reviews how engineered nanoparticles can improve conventional water treatment by selectively removing heavy metals, organic pollutants, and pathogens through adsorption and catalytic degradation. While promising, the authors note that the potential toxicity of nanoparticles to humans and ecosystems must be resolved before they can be widely deployed as safe water purification tools.

2023 Journal of Mines Metals and Fuels 1 citations
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Emerging micropollutants: risks, regulatory trends, and adsorption based-magnetic nanotechnology solutions

This review examines emerging micropollutants including microplastics, PFAS, and pharmaceuticals in aquatic environments, and evaluates magnetic nanotechnology-based adsorption as a removal strategy. The study highlights that metal and metal oxide nanomaterials offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional wastewater treatment methods, though more research is needed on scalability and long-term environmental safety.

2026 Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry
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Nanosorbents in purification of wastewater and remediation of contaminated soil: A review

This review examines how nanoscale sorbent materials can be used to remove pollutants from wastewater and contaminated soil. Nanomaterials offer high surface area and chemical reactivity that make them effective at capturing microplastics, heavy metals, and organic contaminants that standard treatments miss.

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