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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to Next-Generation Water Treatment: Exploring the Potential of Biopolymer-Based Nanocomposites in Adsorption and Membrane Filtration
ClearExploring 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.
Current Status and Advancement of Nanomaterials within Polymeric Membranes for Water Purification
This review examines advances in nanomaterial-enhanced polymeric membranes for water purification, including the removal of contaminants like heavy metals, organic pollutants, and microplastics. Researchers highlight how integrating materials such as metal nanoparticles, nanofibers, and graphene oxide can improve membrane performance for filtering various waterborne pollutants. The study suggests these technologies hold promise for addressing growing challenges in water contamination.
Biopolymeric Nanocomposites for Wastewater Remediation: An Overview on Recent Progress and Challenges
This review examines how nanocomposites made from natural biopolymers like chitosan can be used to filter pollutants including microplastics out of wastewater. These biodegradable materials offer a more sustainable alternative to traditional water treatment methods, which matters for human health because cleaner wastewater means fewer microplastics reaching drinking water sources.
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.
A Review on Cutting-Edge Three-Dimensional Graphene-Based Composite Materials: Redefining Wastewater Remediation for a Cleaner and Sustainable World
This review examines how three-dimensional graphene-based composite materials can be used to remove pollutants like heavy metals, dyes, and pharmaceutical residues from contaminated water. Researchers highlight the materials' large surface area and porous structure as key advantages for filtration, desalination, and photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants. The study also identifies particle size as an underexplored factor that could further improve water treatment performance.
Green solutions for clean water: Natural materials in contaminant detection and removal
This review examines green and natural materials — including biosorbents, biopolymers, plant-based composites, and naturally occurring minerals — as sustainable alternatives to conventional water treatment technologies for detecting and removing emerging contaminants, evaluating biodegradability, cost-effectiveness, and performance against limitations of high cost and secondary pollution in traditional approaches.
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.
The Role of Biocomposites and Nanocomposites in Eliminating Organic Contaminants from Effluents
Not relevant to microplastics — this review evaluates biocomposite and nanocomposite sorbents for removing heavy metals, dyes, and hydrocarbons from industrial wastewater, comparing adsorption mechanisms and recyclability.
Natural and Natural-Based Polymers: Recent Developments in Management of Emerging Pollutants
This review explores how natural and bio-based polymers can be used to remove a range of emerging pollutants from water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides. It highlights natural materials as sustainable, cost-effective alternatives to synthetic adsorbents and aligns with green chemistry principles. The work is relevant to microplastics in that it frames them as part of a broader emerging contaminant problem and explores biopolymer-based solutions for water purification.
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.
Optimized Polymeric Membranes for Water Treatment: Fabrication, Morphology, and Performance
This review examines advances in polymer membrane design for water purification, focusing on how chemical functionalization and fabrication methods determine membrane performance. Researchers highlight promising developments incorporating metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, and graphene into polymer membranes for selectively removing toxic metals and chemicals. The study emphasizes that choosing the right polymer chemistry and morphology is critical for developing efficient water treatment systems.
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.
Polysaccharide nanocomposites in wastewater treatment: A review
This review covers how natural sugar-based polymers (polysaccharides) combined with nanoparticles can be used to clean contaminated water, removing pollutants including heavy metals, dyes, and pharmaceutical residues. While not focused on microplastics specifically, these eco-friendly materials could potentially be adapted to filter microplastics from water as well. The technology is relevant because it offers sustainable alternatives to conventional water treatment methods that struggle with emerging contaminants.
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.
Innovations and challenges in adsorption-based wastewater remediation: A comprehensive review
Researchers reviewed how next-generation materials — including nanomaterials and AI-designed adsorbents with large surface areas and tailored pore structures — are transforming water purification by more efficiently capturing a wider range of contaminants. The review highlights that economic and regulatory barriers still need to be overcome before these advanced technologies can work at the scale of real water treatment plants.
Gum-based nanocomposites for the removal of metals and dyes from waste water
Researchers reviewed how natural gums like guar gum and xanthan gum can be combined with nanomaterials to create low-cost, eco-friendly materials for removing heavy metals and toxic dyes from wastewater. These gum-based nanocomposites are biodegradable and reusable, making them promising alternatives to synthetic adsorbents in water treatment systems.
A Review of the Current Research Status of Graphene for the Removal of Microplastics and Antibiotics from Water
This review assesses the potential of graphene-based materials for microplastic removal from water, evaluating adsorption mechanisms, removal efficiency across particle sizes, and scalability challenges for water treatment applications.
Exploring Microbial-Based Green Nanobiotechnology for Wastewater Remediation: A Sustainable Strategy
This review examines how microbial-based green nanotechnology can serve as a sustainable alternative to conventional wastewater treatment methods. Researchers found that nanoparticles synthesized using microorganisms offer a cost-effective, eco-friendly approach to removing a broad range of water contaminants. The study compares the performance of these green nanomaterials against traditional treatment methods across factors like reusability, efficiency, and scalability.
Innovations in the Development of Promising Adsorbents for the Remediation of Microplastics and Nanoplastics – A Critical Review
This review evaluates innovative materials being developed to remove microplastics and nanoplastics from polluted water, including carbon-based, metal, polymer, and mineral adsorbents. Researchers compared the effectiveness, advantages, and limitations of each type, finding that adsorption-based approaches show strong promise. The study highlights remaining challenges such as scaling these technologies for real-world water treatment applications.
Bio-Based Polymeric Flocculants and Adsorbents for Wastewater Treatment
This review explores how materials derived from natural biological sources, such as plant-based polymers, can be used as flocculants and adsorbents to remove contaminants from wastewater. Researchers found that these bio-based materials offer advantages including biodegradability, low cost, and effectiveness in trapping pollutants through both clumping and surface binding mechanisms. The study suggests that bio-based polymeric materials are a promising sustainable alternative to synthetic chemicals currently used in water treatment.
Microplastic pollutants in water: A comprehensive review on their remediation by adsorption using various adsorbents
This review covers the different materials scientists are developing to filter microplastics out of water, including biochar, activated carbon, sponges, carbon nanotubes, and newer hybrid materials. Each material has trade-offs in terms of cost, effectiveness, and environmental impact, but combining different approaches shows the most promise. The research is important because better water filtration methods could directly reduce the amount of microplastics people consume through drinking water.
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.
Bio-Based Polymeric Membranes: Development and Environmental Applications
This review examined bio-based polymeric membranes as environmentally friendly alternatives to fossil-derived materials for water treatment, discussing polymer selection, preparation methods, green solvents, and their effectiveness in removing organic and inorganic contaminants.
A critical review of microplastics and nanoplastics in wastewater: Insights into adsorbent-based remediation strategies
This review analyzes research on removing microplastics and nanoplastics from water using materials that absorb the particles, finding that adsorption is the most widely studied removal method. Carbon-based and metal-based materials currently dominate the research, but plant-based (biopolymer) adsorbents are gaining attention because they are biodegradable and non-toxic. Better removal technologies are critical because conventional water treatment often fails to capture the smallest plastic particles that pose the greatest risk to human health.