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Advanced Nanotechnology in Wastewater Treatment: Investigating the Role of Nanoparticles in Pollutant Removal, Water Recovery, and Environmental Sustainability

This review examines how nanotechnology-based approaches — including nanoparticle adsorbents, nanofiltration membranes, and photocatalysts — can address persistent water pollutants including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and heavy metals more effectively than conventional treatment methods.

2025 Scholars Journal of Engineering and Technology 2 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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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.

2023
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Nanoscale Solutions: The Transformative Applications of Functionalized Nanomaterials in Environmental Remediation

This review summarizes how functionalized nanomaterials are being applied to remediate environmental pollution in air, water, and soil. The study highlights that engineered nanomaterials can effectively target and break down various contaminants, though further research is needed on their long-term environmental safety and scalability.

2024 Applied Nano 3 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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Nanotechnology for Environmental Remediation: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions in Pollution Control

This review examines how nanomaterials — including zero-valent iron nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, and nanocatalysts — are being applied in environmental remediation to remove heavy metals, organic contaminants, pathogens, and volatile organic compounds from soil, water, and air. The authors highlight that nanomaterials outperform conventional cleanup methods by acting at the molecular level, while also addressing scalability and regulatory challenges.

2024 Universal Research Reports
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Environmental Remediation Using Nanoparticles: A Review

This review examines the use of metal, oxide, and carbon-based nanoparticles for environmental remediation, covering their mechanisms for removing heavy metals, pesticides, industrial effluents, and other pollutants from water, soil, and air.

2024 Kwaghe International Journal of Sciences and Technology
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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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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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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.

2024 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 12 citations
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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.

2025 Nano Trends 4 citations
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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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Nano-Technological Bioremediation: Revolutionizing Environmental Cleanup

This review explores how combining nanotechnology with bioremediation improves the ability to clean up environmental pollutants including microplastics, heavy metals, and organic chemicals. Nano-enabled bioremediation systems can enhance the efficiency of microbial degradation and contaminant capture in polluted soils and water.

2023 International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 2 citations
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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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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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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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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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Application of Nanomaterials in the Degradation of Micro and Nano Plastics

This review examined the application of nanomaterials for degrading micro- and nanoplastics, covering photocatalytic, oxidative, and biological nanomaterial approaches and evaluating their efficiency and scalability for plastic pollution remediation.

2024 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks
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Conventional technologies and recent developments in the nanotechnological approach for the remediation of persistent organic pollutants

This is not primarily about microplastics — it is a review of nanotechnological approaches to removing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from the environment, covering a broad range of contaminants and treatment strategies with only tangential connection to plastic pollution.

2024 Water Practice & Technology 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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Nanoparticles in Soil Remediation: Challenges and Opportunities

This review examines the use of nanoparticles for cleaning up contaminated soils, covering technologies like chemical degradation, photocatalysis, and combined approaches with bioremediation. Researchers found that while nanomaterials show promise for removing pollutants, their own potential environmental and health effects need careful evaluation. The study calls for developing better monitoring tools and multi-functional nanocomposites to advance the field of soil cleanup.

2023 Industrial and Domestic Waste Management 17 citations
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Exploring trends of wastewater treatment by using nano-materials and their composites with bio-polymer

This review examines trends in wastewater treatment using nanomaterials and their composites with biopolymers, analyzing techniques including nanofiltration, adsorption, disinfection, and bioremediation for removing pollutants such as heavy metals, biological oxygen demand, and toxic compounds from industrial effluents.

2024 Environment Conservation Journal 1 citations
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Nanomaterials for Water Remediation: An Efficient Strategy for Prevention of Metal(loid) Hazard

This review examines how nanomaterials can be used to remediate metal and metalloid contamination in water, covering adsorption mechanisms, synthesis methods, and the advantages of nano-scale adsorbents over conventional water treatment approaches.

2022 Water 23 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