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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.

2024 Nanomaterials 6 citations
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Highly Efficient Adsorption of Norfloxacin by Low-Cost Biochar: Performance, Mechanisms, and Machine Learning-Assisted Understanding

Researchers produced biochar from medicinal plant residue using potassium carbonate activation and demonstrated its effectiveness in removing the antibiotic norfloxacin from wastewater. The biochar achieved a high surface area and strong adsorption performance through multiple binding mechanisms including hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions. The study also employed machine learning to predict adsorption outcomes, offering a cost-effective approach to treating pharmaceutical contamination in water.

2024 ACS Omega 14 citations
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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.

2021 Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S 19 citations
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Microporous carbon derived from waste plastics for efficient adsorption of tetracycline: Adsorption mechanism and application potentials

Scientists converted waste PET plastic bottles into a porous carbon material that can remove 100% of the antibiotic tetracycline from water. The material worked effectively across a wide range of water conditions and could be reused multiple times. This approach offers a double benefit: it repurposes plastic waste that would otherwise become microplastic pollution while also cleaning antibiotics from water, addressing two environmental threats at once.

2025 Environmental Research 20 citations
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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.

2023 Biochar 16 citations
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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.

2023 Bioresource Technology 42 citations
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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.

2022 Water Science & Technology 25 citations
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Efficient tetracycline hydrochloride degradation via peroxymonosulfate activation by N doped coagulated sludge based biochar: Insights on the nonradical pathway

Researchers found a way to repurpose waste sludge from microplastic removal processes by converting it into a nitrogen-doped carbon material that can break down the antibiotic tetracycline in water. The recycled material performed well across a wide pH range and worked primarily through a nonradical pathway to degrade the antibiotic. The study offers a dual benefit approach that addresses both microplastic waste management and antibiotic contamination in water systems.

2024 Environmental Research 5 citations
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Adsorption Capacity of Tetracycline in Solution by Cu-BTC@Carboxyl-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes@Copper Alginate Composite Aerogel Beads

Researchers developed composite aerogel beads made from Cu-BTC metal-organic framework, carboxyl-functionalized carbon nanotubes, and copper alginate to adsorb tetracycline from sewage, systematically characterizing the adsorption performance and mechanisms of this nanomaterial composite for antibiotic removal from wastewater.

2022 Coatings 19 citations
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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.

2022 Catalysts 23 citations
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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.

2022 Sustainability 143 citations
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Ca/Al and Mg/Al LDH Supported on Biochars As Effective Adsorbent and Highly Regeneration Ability for Phenol Removal from Aqueous Solution

This materials science study synthesizes biochar-composite adsorbents (Ca/Al and Mg/Al layered double hydroxides on biochar) and tests their ability to remove phenol from water, achieving improved surface area and five-cycle regeneration stability. It is not about microplastics and is a false positive for microplastic relevance.

2023 Indonesian Journal of Material Research 7 citations
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Oleic Acid-Tailored Geopolymer Microspheres with Tunable Porous Structure for Enhanced Removal from Tetracycline in Saline Water

Researchers developed metakaolin-based geopolymer microspheres modified with oleic acid to enhance tetracycline adsorption from saline water, achieving a Langmuir adsorption capacity of 645.7 mg/g at 298 K with the optimal 0.3% oleic acid formulation. The adsorption process followed pseudo-second-order kinetics and the Langmuir isotherm model, involving Van der Waals forces, electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, and ion exchange, with good regeneration performance over multiple cycles.

2022 Sustainability 11 citations
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Enhanced Tetracycline Removal from Water through Synergistic Adsorption and Photodegradation Using Lignocellulose-Derived Hydrothermal Carbonation Carbon

Researchers synthesized hydrothermal carbonation carbon (HTCC) from three lignocellulose components — cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin — at temperatures of 210-290 degrees Celsius and compared their synergistic adsorption and photodegradation performance for tetracycline removal. Lignin-derived HTCC achieved the best removal efficiency at 63.5% within 120 minutes, operating through a non-radical charge-transfer photodegradation mechanism driven by surface carboxyl groups, with performance attributed to its distinct oxygenated functional group composition.

2024 C – Journal of Carbon Research
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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.

2023 Applied Water Science 30 citations
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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.

2024 Journal of Environmental Management 24 citations
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Biochar produced from the co-pyrolysis of sewage sludge and waste tires for cadmium and tetracycline adsorption from water

Researchers developed a biochar from co-pyrolysis of sewage sludge and waste tires that effectively adsorbed cadmium and antibiotic (tetracycline) from water. While focused on water treatment, this approach also addresses sewage sludge — which typically contains high microplastic concentrations — as a resource rather than a waste.

2021 Water Science & Technology 20 citations
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Sustainable functionalized smectitic clay-based nano hydrated zirconium oxides for enhanced levofloxacin sorption from aqueous medium

Researchers developed a functionalized smectitic clay-based nano hydrated zirconium oxide composite for removing the antibiotic levofloxacin from water, achieving high adsorption capacity through a sustainable and reusable nanomaterial approach.

2023 Journal of Hazardous Materials 46 citations
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A review on tetracycline removal from aqueous systems by advanced treatment techniques

This review covers the occurrence of tetracycline antibiotics in aquatic environments and evaluates advanced treatment technologies — including adsorption, photocatalysis, and membrane processes — for their removal, identifying the most promising approaches based on efficiency and practical scalability.

2020 RSC Advances 300 citations
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High-performance biochar-loaded MgAl-layered double oxide adsorbents derived from sewage sludge towards nanoplastics removal: Mechanism elucidation and QSAR modeling

Researchers fabricated a biochar-layered double oxide composite from sewage sludge and used quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling to predict and confirm its high adsorption capacity for polystyrene nanoplastics — up to 360 mg/g — demonstrating a route to convert waste sludge into high-performance nanoplastic remediation materials.

2023 The Science of The Total Environment 44 citations
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Microplastic Removal from Wastewater Using Biochar Based Composite

This book chapter describes how biochar-based composites can be used as adsorbents for removing microplastics from wastewater, reviewing the mechanisms of plastic particle capture and the performance of biochar materials compared to conventional treatment approaches.

2025
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Adsorption of tetracyclines onto polyethylene microplastics: A combined study of experiment and molecular dynamics simulation

The adsorption of three tetracycline antibiotics (TC, CTC, and OTC) onto polyethylene microplastics was studied in aqueous solution through a combination of batch experiments and computational modeling. Results showed that hydrophobic interactions and surface properties of PE microplastics drive tetracycline adsorption, contributing to antibiotic accumulation on environmental plastic debris.

2020 Chemosphere 201 citations
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Potential Application of Discarded Natural Coal Gangue for the Removal of Tetracycline Hydrochloride (TC) from an Aqueous Solution

Discarded coal gangue waste was found to effectively adsorb tetracycline antibiotic from water, suggesting a dual environmental benefit: reducing both coal waste stockpiles and pharmaceutical pollution in water supplies.

2022 Toxics 5 citations
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Innovative Strategies for Microplastic Mitigation in Wastewater

This book chapter proposes the use of biochar-based composite materials as innovative filter media for removing microplastics from wastewater, describing the adsorption mechanisms by which biochar captures plastic particles and the potential to integrate this approach into existing treatment infrastructure.

2025