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ClearBiochar-layered double hydroxide composites for the adsorption of tetracycline from water. Synthesis, Process Modeling and Mechanism
Researchers developed biochar-layered double hydroxide composites to remove the antibiotic tetracycline from water, finding high adsorption efficiency through multiple interaction mechanisms. This material offers a promising approach to cleaning pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater.
Efficient Removal of Tetracycline from Water by One-Step Pyrolytic Porous Biochar Derived from Antibiotic Fermentation Residue
Researchers developed a one-step pyrolytic porous biochar material for efficient tetracycline removal from water, achieving high adsorption capacity and demonstrating the potential of waste-derived biochar as a low-cost water treatment adsorbent.
A Review on Application of Biochar in the Removal of Pharmaceutical Pollutants through Adsorption and Persulfate-Based AOPs
This review examined the application of biochar for removing pharmaceutical pollutants from water through adsorption and persulfate-based advanced oxidation processes, highlighting biochar's strong adsorption capacity, low cost, and effectiveness as a catalyst for activating persulfate.
Mechanistic insights to sorptive removal of four sulfonamide antibiotics from water using magnetite-functionalized biochar
This paper is not about microplastics. It investigates how magnetite-functionalized biochar removes sulfonamide antibiotics from water, finding that hydrogen bonding is the primary mechanism of adsorption and that the material's oxygen-containing surface groups drive removal efficiency. The study focuses on antibiotic water contamination remediation rather than microplastic pollution.
Emerging contaminants in polluted waters: Harnessing Biochar's potential for effective treatment
This review explores how biochar, a carbon-rich material made from organic waste, can be used to remove a wide range of pollutants from contaminated water, including microplastics, heavy metals, antibiotics, and PFAS. Biochar works through multiple mechanisms like adsorption, electrostatic interactions, and chemical bonding, and can be enhanced through surface modifications. The study highlights biochar as a low-cost, adaptable tool for addressing emerging water contaminants.
Advancements in Biochar as a Sustainable Adsorbent for Water Pollution Mitigation
This review examines how biochar, a charcoal-like material made from plant waste, can remove over 80% of microplastics and nanoplastics from contaminated water, along with heavy metals and other pollutants. Advances in biochar production and machine learning optimization are making it a promising, sustainable tool for cleaning microplastic-polluted water before it reaches people.
Synergistic mechanisms for the superior sorptive removal of aquatic pollutants via functionalized biochar-clay composite
Researchers developed a functionalized algal biochar-clay composite that achieved synergistic removal of antibiotics and dyes from water, with a thirty-fold increase in surface area compared to raw biochar, demonstrating effectiveness in both batch and continuous flow systems.
Effective Removal of Refractory Pollutants through Cinnamic Acid-Modified Wheat Husk Biochar: Experimental and DFT-Based Analysis
Researchers developed a cinnamic acid-modified wheat husk biochar adsorbent and found it effectively removed methylene blue dye and the antibiotic ciprofloxacin from water, with density functional theory calculations confirming the molecular interactions driving adsorption.
Tetracycline Removal from Water by Adsorption on Geomaterial, Activated Carbon and Clay Adsorbents
New geomaterial adsorbents made from clay, activated carbon, cement, and PVA polymer were synthesized and tested for tetracycline removal from water, achieving rapid equilibrium within 30 minutes and high adsorption capacity that was pH-dependent, offering a low-cost option for antibiotic contamination removal in wastewater treatment applications.
Enhanced adsorption performance of sulfamethoxazole and tetracycline in aqueous solutions by MgFe2O4-magnetic biochar
Researchers developed MgFe2O4-magnetic biochar adsorbents from corncob that simultaneously removed two common antibiotics — sulfamethoxazole and tetracycline — from water, offering an efficient and separable solution for antibiotic pollution remediation.
Mechanistic and machine-learning insights into microplastic adsorption on modified magnetic biochar for circular-economy applications
Researchers investigated stearic acid-modified magnetic biochar for removing polystyrene microplastics from water, achieving approximately 94% removal efficiency. Machine learning analysis identified contact time, pH, and adsorbent type as the key predictors of removal performance, and the microplastic-laden adsorbent was successfully upcycled for dye removal, demonstrating a circular-economy approach to water treatment.
The Use of Biochar in Reducing Contamination of Soils in Agreste Pernambucano Region by Sulfamethoxazole and Sulfadiazine
Researchers investigated biochar as an amendment to sandy soils from Agreste Pernambuco to improve sorption of the antibiotics sulfamethoxazole and sulfadiazine, finding that biochar addition significantly increased antibiotic retention — reaching up to 123 mg/kg for sulfamethoxazole — reducing groundwater contamination risk.
Recent advances in biochar technology for aquatic pollution control: a critical review of applications, barriers, and future opportunities
Researchers reviewed two decades of research on biochar — a charcoal-like material made from organic waste — as a low-cost tool for removing pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, microplastics, and nutrients from water, achieving up to 80% pollutant removal. While promising, challenges in regeneration and scaling up production remain barriers to widespread use.
Removing Norfloxacin from Aqueous Solutions Using Biochar Derived from Waste Disposable Bamboo Chopsticks
Researchers created biochar from waste disposable bamboo chopsticks and tested its ability to remove the antibiotic norfloxacin from water. The bamboo-derived biochar achieved a removal rate of nearly 100% and outperformed biochar made from seven other biomass materials under the same conditions. The study demonstrates that repurposing common waste materials into biochar could be an effective and sustainable approach for treating antibiotic-contaminated water.
Adsorption of Pollutants from Wastewater by Biochar: A Review
This review examines how biochar, a carbon-rich material made from organic waste, can be used to remove pollutants including microplastics, heavy metals, and organic chemicals from wastewater. Biochar works by adsorbing contaminants onto its surface, and its effectiveness can be improved through chemical modifications. The technology offers a low-cost, sustainable approach to water treatment that could help reduce microplastic contamination in water supplies.
Synthesis of invasive plant biochar catalyst with carbon nitride structure for peroxymonosulfate activation toward efficient ciprofloxacin degradation
Researchers created a new material from an invasive plant that, when combined with cobalt, could break down the common antibiotic ciprofloxacin in water within just 10 minutes with 98% efficiency across four reuse cycles. This "treat waste with waste" approach offers a promising low-cost tool for removing pharmaceutical pollutants from water supplies.
Biochar : A Review of its History, Characteristics, Factors that Influence its Yield, Methods of Production, Application in Wastewater Treatment and Recent Development
This review examines biochar's history, physicochemical properties, production methods, and applications in wastewater treatment, highlighting its high porosity and diverse functional groups that enable effective adsorption of contaminants including heavy metals and organic pollutants.
Biochar for the Removal of Emerging Pollutants from Aquatic Systems: A Review
This review examines the use of biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from biomass, for removing emerging pollutants from water systems. Researchers analyzed how different biochar types and pollutant characteristics affect removal efficiency, along with the underlying adsorption mechanisms. The study highlights biochar as a promising and cost-effective tool for water remediation while noting the need for further research on potential risks of its use.
Integration of machine learning and meta-analysis reveals the behaviors and mechanisms of antibiotic adsorption on microplastics
Combining meta-analysis of 6,805 records with machine learning, this study found that polyamide microplastics have the highest capacity to adsorb antibiotics via hydrogen bonding, with chlortetracycline showing the strongest affinity to microplastic surfaces. Particle size, pH, and pollutant concentrations were the key factors governing adsorption, and the study deployed a predictive tool for estimating antibiotic loading on microplastics.
AI-driven biochar engineering for emerging pollutants removal from water: performance, mechanisms, and environmental perspectives
Researchers reviewed how biochar — a charcoal-like material made from organic waste — can be engineered at different levels of complexity, from raw biochar to AI-optimized advanced composites, to remove emerging pollutants like pharmaceuticals, PFAS, and micro- and nanoplastics from water. The review advocates for using AI to guide material design and prioritizing simpler, more sustainable biochar forms unless more advanced composites are truly necessary.
Prediction of Biochar Adsorption of Uranium in Wastewater and Inversion of Key Influencing Parameters Based on Ensemble Learning
Researchers used ensemble learning models to predict how biochar adsorbs uranium from wastewater and identify the key parameters influencing adsorption capacity. They found that combining stochastic configuration networks with the Adaboost algorithm significantly improved prediction accuracy compared to single models. The study provides a data-driven framework for optimizing biochar design for heavy metal removal in wastewater treatment.
Decontamination of levofloxacin from water using a novel chitosan–walnut shells composite: linear, nonlinear, and optimization modeling
Researchers created a composite material from chitosan and walnut shells that can remove up to 94% of levofloxacin — a common antibiotic — from contaminated water, offering a low-cost, reusable approach to filtering pharmaceutical pollutants from water supplies.
Functionalized Biochars for Enhanced Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solutions: Mechanism and Future Industrial Prospects
This review examined functionalized biochar materials as adsorbents for removing heavy metals from water, comparing surface modification strategies that enhance metal uptake capacity and selectivity. Functionalized biochars showed substantially improved adsorption performance over unmodified biochar and low-cost conventional materials.
Removal of benzotriazole derivatives by biochar: Potential environmental applications
Researchers tested two types of biochar made from fruit tree kernels for their ability to remove benzotriazole compounds, which are common industrial wastewater pollutants. They achieved high removal efficiencies of up to 526 milligrams per gram, even in real wastewater samples. The study suggests that biochar from agricultural waste could serve as an effective and sustainable tool for treating contaminated water.