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ClearUnlocking the potential of nanobiohybrids to combat environmental pollution
This review examines how nanobiohybrids — combinations of nanomaterials with biological components — could be used to clean up environmental pollutants, including plastics. The chapter highlights emerging nanotechnology-based bioremediation strategies as sustainable alternatives to conventional pollution management. While not focused on microplastic toxicology, it is relevant to the broader challenge of removing plastic contamination from the environment.
Nanobiomaterials-Based Environmental Bioremediation: A Special Focus on Microplastics
This chapter reviews nanotechnology-based biomaterials for bioremediation of environmental microplastic pollution, examining collective microbial power technologies and green nanomaterial approaches for removing plastic particles from contaminated environments. The authors assess current bionanomaterial techniques and their advantages and disadvantages, and outline future directions for achieving complete microplastic purging from environmental systems.
Nanoparticle-Based Bioremediation Approach for Plastics and Microplastics
This review explores how nanoparticle-enhanced bioremediation approaches can help address plastic and microplastic pollution. Researchers found that combining biological degradation by bacteria and fungi with engineered nanoparticles can improve the efficiency of breaking down various plastic polymers. The study suggests that these hybrid bioremediation strategies offer a promising eco-friendly pathway for mitigating plastic contamination in the environment.
Advanced synergistic remediation of diverse plastic pollutants using nano-enabled biocatalysts
This review examines advanced synergistic remediation strategies using nano-enabled technologies to address diverse plastic pollutants, covering photocatalytic, enzymatic, and combined approaches that can simultaneously degrade multiple polymer types in contaminated water and soil.
Nanophytoremediation: advancing phytoremediation efficiency through nanotechnology integration
This review examines how combining nanotechnology with plants that naturally absorb pollutants (phytoremediation) could speed up environmental cleanup efforts. Nanoparticles can help plants take up contaminants more efficiently and survive in polluted conditions, offering a potential strategy for addressing soil and water contamination from various pollutants including plastics.
Nanotechnology for the bioremediation of heavy metals and metalloids
This review examines the application of nanotechnology for bioremediation of heavy metals and metalloids from contaminated soil and water, highlighting how nanobioremediation approaches overcome limitations of conventional cleanup methods.
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.
Challenges and opportunities in bioremediation of micro-nano plastics: A review.
This review examines biological approaches to removing micro- and nanoplastics from the environment, focusing on microbial degradation and bioremediation strategies. While bioremediation holds promise, challenges remain in identifying microbes capable of degrading common plastic types and scaling these processes for practical environmental cleanup.
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.
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.
Exploration of Microbial Factories for Synthesis of Nanoparticles – A Sustainable Approach for Bioremediation of Environmental Contaminants
This review explores how microorganisms can be harnessed to produce nanoparticles for environmental cleanup, including the remediation of pollutants like microplastics. Researchers describe how microbial synthesis of nanoparticles offers a cleaner, cheaper, and more sustainable alternative to traditional chemical and physical manufacturing methods. The biologically produced nanoparticles show promise as tools for removing heavy metals, dyes, and other contaminants from polluted environments.
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.
Novel Acumens into Biodegradation: Impact of Nanomaterials and Their Contribution
This review examines how nanomaterials can enhance the biodegradation of pollutants, including plastics, in the environment. Nanomaterial-assisted biodegradation offers a potential strategy for accelerating the breakdown of plastic waste before it fragments into microplastics.
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.
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.
A concept for the biotechnological minimizing of emerging plastics, micro- and nano-plastics pollutants from the environment: A review.
This review examined biotechnological strategies for remediating plastics, micro-, and nano-plastics from the environment, cataloguing microbial and enzymatic degradation approaches, discussing their mechanistic basis, and proposing an integrated biotechnology framework for minimizing plastic pollution across terrestrial and aquatic systems.
Role of Nanotechnology in Plastic and Microplastic Management
This review examines how nanotechnology can enhance plastic and microplastic degradation, describing how nanomaterials can modify microbial metabolic pathways to improve biodegradation rates and how photocatalytic approaches can break down plastics into low-molecular-weight intermediates suitable for use as chemical feedstocks.
Recent trends in bioremediation and bioaugmentation strategies for mitigation of marine based pollutants: current perspectives and future outlook
This review evaluates recent advances in bioremediation and bioaugmentation strategies for addressing marine pollution from microplastics, hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and pesticides. Researchers highlight progress in developing tailored microbial consortia, genetically engineered degradation agents, and nano-enabled remediation approaches informed by omics tools. The study notes that while significant advances have been made, scaling these biological approaches to handle complex pollutant mixtures in real ocean conditions remains a major challenge.
Nanotechnology in Plastic Degradation
This review examines how nanotechnology can enhance plastic biodegradation, with nanoparticles improving microbial metabolic efficiency for polythene degradation, while also being incorporated into bioplastics to improve their poor thermal and mechanical properties relative to conventional plastics.
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.