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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to Magnetic Cobalt and Other Types of Ferrite Nanoparticles: Synthesis Aspects and Novel Strategies for Application in Wastewater Treatment (Review)
ClearSynthesis and Evaluation on the Performance of Ferrofluid in Wastewater Treatment
Researchers evaluated iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (ferrofluids) as a water treatment technology capable of removing turbidity, metals, and organic contaminants. Magnetic nanoparticles that can also capture microplastics from water represent a promising approach for more comprehensive water purification.
A New Approach
Researchers explored the use of magnetic spinel nano ferrites, including zinc ferrite and cobalt ferrite, as a green approach for removing microplastics from wastewater. They demonstrated that these magnetic nanoparticles could effectively adsorb various types of nanoplastics from both domestic and industrial wastewater, and that the adsorbed microplastics could be successfully recovered using eco-friendly solvents. The study presents a promising low-cost alternative to conventional microplastic removal methods.
Magnetic polymeric composites: potential for separating and degrading micro/nano plastics
Researchers reviewed how magnetic composite materials can be used to attract, capture, and chemically break down microplastics and nanoplastics in wastewater, finding that combining magnetic separation with advanced oxidation or photocatalysis offers one of the most promising approaches for removing these persistent plastic pollutants from water.
Removal of Micro and Nanoplastics from Water Using Magnetic Nanoparticles: A Review
This review evaluates the use of magnetic nanoparticles as a technology for removing micro- and nanoplastics from water. Researchers found that magnetic nanoparticles can effectively capture plastic particles through surface interactions and be easily separated from water using magnets. The study suggests this approach offers a promising and energy-efficient method for cleaning microplastic-contaminated water, though challenges remain in scaling it for real-world applications.
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.
Advances in magnetic materials for microplastic separation and degradation
This review examined advances in magnetic materials and nanostructures for separating and degrading microplastics from water, highlighting their potential for targeted adsorption, transport, and catalytic degradation of plastic pollution in aquatic environments.
Remediation strategies for micro/nanoplastic pollution using magnetic nanomaterials
This review surveys recent developments in using magnetic nanomaterials, such as iron oxide nanoparticles and magnetic composites, to remove micro- and nanoplastics from water and soil. These materials can capture plastic particles through adsorption, help clump them together for removal, or even break them down, and they can be magnetically recovered for reuse. The study highlights that magnetic nanomaterials offer a promising approach for cleaning up plastic pollution, though challenges remain in scaling up for real-world use.
Advances in magnetic materials for microplastic separation and degradation
This review examines how magnetic materials can be used to capture and break down microplastics in water. Different types of magnetic particles, including iron nanoparticles and tiny magnetic robots, can attract and remove microplastics with high efficiency. These technologies could be important for cleaning up microplastic-contaminated water supplies and reducing human exposure through drinking water.
Nanomaterials for the remediation of microplastics in wastewater
This review evaluates how engineered nanomaterials can be used to capture and break down microplastics in wastewater, highlighting approaches based on metal oxide nanoparticles, carbon-based materials, and magnetic composites. Researchers found that these nanomaterials offer high surface area and reactivity advantages over conventional treatment methods. The study identifies scalability, cost, and potential secondary pollution from the nanomaterials themselves as key challenges to address before widespread adoption.
Nano-based remediation strategies for micro and nanoplastic pollution
This review covers how nanomaterial-based technologies can be used to remove microplastics from the environment, including methods using magnetic nanoparticles, photocatalysts, and membrane filters. While current physical, chemical, and biological removal methods each have limitations, nanomaterials can enhance their effectiveness by targeting smaller plastic particles that traditional methods miss. Better removal technologies could ultimately reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water and food.
Magnetic nanocomposites: innovative adsorbents for antibiotics removal from aqueous environments–a narrative review
This review examines how magnetic nanocomposite materials can be used to remove pharmaceutical pollutants from water. While not directly about microplastics, the technology is relevant because microplastics in water often carry pharmaceutical residues that conventional treatment cannot fully remove. Better water filtration methods like these could help reduce human exposure to the cocktail of pollutants that microplastics transport.
A review on advances in hybrid magnetic nanoparticles for microplastics removal: Mechanistic insights and emerging prospects
This review examines the use of hybrid magnetic nanoparticles as a new approach to remove microplastics from water, especially the very small particles under 10 micrometers that traditional treatment methods miss. These magnetic materials can be functionalized to attract and capture microplastics, then separated from the water using magnets. While still mostly at the research stage, this technology could eventually improve water treatment and reduce human exposure to the smallest and most harmful microplastic particles.
Preparation and Application of Magnetic Composites Using Controllable Assembly for Use in Water Treatment: A Review
Not directly relevant to microplastics — this review covers magnetic composite materials and their use in treating dye, heavy-metal, and oily wastewater, without specific focus on microplastic contamination.
Durably Superhydrophobic Magnetic Cobalt Ferrites for Highly Efficient Oil–Water Separation and Fast Microplastic Removal
Researchers developed superhydrophobic magnetic cobalt ferrite particles for removing microplastics from water using a simple coprecipitation method. The particles achieved nearly 100% microplastic removal efficiency with a capture capacity of 2.56 grams per gram, maintained stable performance across pH 1-13, and retained effectiveness after 10 reuse cycles. The study demonstrates a practical, recyclable approach to microplastic remediation in water treatment.
Magnetic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Their Use in Biomedical Field
This review covers the synthesis, properties, and biomedical uses of magnetic nanoparticles for applications like drug delivery, medical imaging, and cancer treatment. While not directly about microplastics, the same nanoparticle technologies discussed here are being adapted for environmental cleanup, including the removal of microplastics from water. The paper serves as a useful reference for understanding the nanotechnology tools that could help address microplastic pollution.
Harnessing Magnetic Nanoparticles for the Effective Removal of Micro- and Nanoplastics: A Critical Review
This review summarizes how tiny magnetic nanoparticles can be used to pull microplastics and nanoplastics out of water by binding to them and separating them magnetically. While still facing challenges like scaling up and optimizing the particles, this technology could help reduce the amount of microplastics that reach drinking water and ultimately the human body.
Emerging Applications of Magnetic Nanomaterials in the Remediation of Microplastics from the Aquatic Environment
This review examined the use of magnetic nanomaterials for removing microplastics from aquatic environments, summarizing how magnetic separation can efficiently capture plastic particles for remediation purposes. The authors highlight magnetic nanomaterials as a promising and scalable tool for microplastic cleanup.
Recent Advances of Magnetite (Fe3O4)-Based Magnetic Materials in Catalytic Applications
This review covers how magnetite (iron oxide) nanomaterials are being used in environmental cleanup, including removing pollutants from water, and in medical applications like cancer treatment. The magnetic properties of these materials make them easy to recover and reuse, which is relevant to microplastic pollution because magnetic separation is one promising method for filtering microplastics out of water.
Microplastic transport dynamics and the path forward with magnetic nanoparticle based solutions
This review summarizes the widespread distribution of microplastics in aquatic systems and evaluates the use of magnetic nanoparticles as a solution for removing them from water. Magnetic nanoparticles can bind to microplastics and then be separated from water using magnets, offering a promising and efficient cleanup method. Effective microplastic removal from water is important because contaminated drinking water and seafood are major sources of human microplastic exposure.
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.
Enhanced removal of microplastics from wastewater treatment plants by a novel magnetic filter
This study developed a novel magnetic adsorption approach to enhance microplastic removal in wastewater treatment plant effluents, achieving high removal efficiency across a range of particle sizes and polymer types.
Revealing the role of magnetic materials in light-driven advanced oxidation processes: enhanced degradation of contaminants and facilitated magnetic recovery
This paper is not directly about microplastics — it reviews the use of magnetic semiconductor photocatalysts to improve wastewater treatment efficiency, focusing on pollutant degradation and catalyst recovery via magnetic separation, without addressing microplastic contamination.
Microplastic removal via physical and chemical methods
This review summarizes physical and chemical methods for removing microplastics from water, including filtration, coagulation, magnetic separation, and photocatalytic degradation. Improving removal efficiency is critical for protecting drinking water supplies and reducing the amount of microplastic that aquatic organisms and humans are exposed to.
A comprehensive review on impregnated magnetic nanoparticle in advanced wastewater treatment: An in-depth technical review and future directions
Researchers reviewed how iron-based magnetic nanoparticles (tiny particles 10–100 nm in size) can remove pollutants like heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics from wastewater with over 90% efficiency, while being recoverable with a magnet and reusable up to 10 times. The technology uses 20–30% less energy than traditional treatments and shows strong potential for large-scale water purification.