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ClearNanoscale 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.
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.
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.
Advanced Bio-Nanomaterials for Mitigating Airborne Pathogens in Urban Polluted Environments
This work presents advanced bio-nanomaterials designed to mitigate airborne pathogens in urban polluted environments, examining the development and application of nanoscale materials for air quality improvement in contexts where biological and particulate contaminants co-occur.
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.
A review on the role of nanotechnological interventions in sequestration, mitigation and value-added product conversion of micro-/nanoplastics
This review examines how nanotechnology-based approaches can be used to capture, break down, or convert microplastics and nanoplastics into useful products. The buildup of these tiny plastic particles in water environments has become a global health and environmental concern. The review highlights promising technologies that could help clean up microplastic pollution and reduce human exposure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nano-Engineering for Clean Water Solutions
Scientists have reviewed how tiny engineered particles (nanotechnology) can help clean water by removing dangerous pollutants like heavy metals, leftover medicines, and microplastics that traditional filters often miss. These nano-scale materials work better than current methods because they can target specific contaminants and use less energy. While this technology shows great promise for providing safer drinking water worldwide, researchers still need to study whether these tiny particles themselves might be harmful to people or the environment.
Nanotechnology for the Remediation of Plastic Wastes
This review examines nanotechnology-based approaches for remediation of plastic waste, covering methods to address the growing environmental threat posed by microplastics and nanoplastics as persistent pollutants derived from degrading larger plastic debris.
Nanoteknolojinin Tıp ve Mühendislik Uygulamaları
This review covers nanotechnology applications in medicine and engineering, summarizing advancements in nanomaterial development and their utilization across biomedical and engineering domains.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nanotechnology and its role in raising the efficiency of the internal environment in negative patient isolation rooms in Egyptian hospitals-Evidence-Proofs
This paper reviewed nanotechnology applications for improving the performance of internal combustion engines, covering nano-lubricants, nano-fuel additives, and nanocoating technologies. The review found nanotechnology can substantially improve engine efficiency and reduce emissions.
A review of nanomaterials with excellent purification potential for the removal of micro- and nanoplastics from liquid
This review summarizes how specialized nanomaterials can be used to remove microplastics and nanoplastics from water, working as tiny filters, chemical catalysts, or absorbent surfaces. Traditional water treatment methods struggle with these very small plastic particles, but engineered nanomaterials show promise for capturing them more effectively. The authors also emphasize the importance of reducing plastic pollution at its source alongside developing better cleanup technologies.
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.
A Review of Materials for the Removal of Micro- and Nanoplastics from Different Environments
This review evaluates methods for removing microplastics and nanoplastics from water, soil, and air, finding that traditional approaches like filtration work for larger particles but struggle with nanoscale plastics. Newer technologies like magnetic nanoparticles and photocatalysis show promise, but challenges remain in making these solutions affordable and scalable for real-world cleanup.
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.
Nanostructured Bioaerogels as a Potential Solution for Particulate Matter Pollution
This review examined nanostructured bioaerogels as a potential solution for particulate matter air pollution, highlighting their high porosity and surface area as advantages for filtering fine particles that pose serious health risks.
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.