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Editorial: Emerging trends in advanced oxidation processes for water treatment

This editorial reviewed emerging trends in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for treating water contaminated with pharmaceuticals, microplastics, pesticides, and other emerging contaminants. The review highlighted recent advances in photocatalysis, ozonation, and combined AOP systems for effective water treatment.

2025 Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry 2 citations
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Emerging Contaminants: An Overview of Recent Trends for Their Treatment and Management Using Light-Driven Processes

This review characterized contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in water bodies and evaluated light-driven treatment processes including photo/Fenton, photocatalysis, photolysis, and UV/Ozone, proposing a two-pronged management framework that incorporates both detection and degradation strategies.

2021 Water 40 citations
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Recent advances and challenges in advanced oxidation processes for degradation of nano- and microplastics in water: a critical review

This critical review evaluates four main advanced oxidation processes — ozonation, photocatalysis, Fenton reactions, and electrochemical oxidation — for breaking down nano- and microplastics in water, summarizing what has been achieved and where major technical gaps remain. Developing effective degradation technologies is urgently needed because conventional water treatment systems do not reliably remove small plastic particles.

2026 RSC Advances
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Application of Electrochemical Oxidation for Water and Wastewater Treatment: An Overview

This review covered electrochemical oxidation technologies for water and wastewater treatment, discussing their effectiveness against emerging pollutants, dyes, and chemicals while highlighting operational parameters that influence treatment efficiency.

2023 Preprints.org 11 citations
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Developments in advanced oxidation processes for removal of microplastics from aqueous matrices

This review evaluates advanced oxidation processes for removing microplastics from water, finding that photocatalysis, Fenton reactions, and electrochemical methods can effectively degrade microplastics into smaller molecules, offering promising alternatives to conventional non-destructive treatment approaches.

2022 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 38 citations
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Treatment of Water and Wastewater: Challenges and Solutions

This editorial introduces a special issue focused on challenges and solutions in water and wastewater treatment, covering topics from emerging contaminants to innovative treatment technologies. The collection highlights how pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals present ongoing challenges for conventional treatment systems. The study emphasizes the need for advanced treatment approaches and integrated management strategies to protect water quality and public health.

2023 Separations 17 citations
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Critical assessment of advanced oxidation processes and bio-electrochemical integrated systems for removing emerging contaminants from wastewater

This review assesses advanced oxidation processes and bioelectrochemical systems for removing emerging contaminants such as personal care products, antibiotics, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals from wastewater. The study evaluates integrated treatment approaches for addressing these difficult-to-remove pollutants.

2023 RSC Sustainability 73 citations
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Advanced electrocatalytic redox processes for environmental remediation of halogenated organic water pollutants

Researchers reviewed advanced electrochemical methods for breaking down halogenated organic pollutants in water, which are persistent contaminants found in many industrial and consumer products. The study examined how electrocatalytic processes can target the strong carbon-halogen bonds that make these chemicals so resistant to natural degradation. The findings suggest that these emerging treatment technologies hold promise for cleaning up contaminated water sources more effectively than conventional methods.

2023 Chemical Communications 39 citations
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Application of Electrochemical Oxidation for Water and Wastewater Treatment: An Overview

This review covers electrochemical oxidation, an advanced water treatment method that uses electricity to break down stubborn pollutants in wastewater. The technique can remove pharmaceuticals, dyes, and other persistent chemicals that standard treatment misses. While not specifically about microplastics, this type of advanced treatment technology is relevant to addressing the growing problem of emerging contaminants in drinking water.

2023 Molecules 95 citations
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Application of Advanced Integrated Technologies (Membrane and Photo-Oxidation Processes) for the Removal of CECs contained in Urban Wastewater.

Researchers reviewed and evaluated the integration of membrane filtration and photo-oxidation technologies for removing contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) from urban wastewater, arguing that combining these methods yields synergistic effects not achievable by individual treatments. The study highlights the importance of advanced integrated treatment systems to enable wastewater reuse and address the global freshwater scarcity challenge.

2024
Article Tier 2

From Fenton and ORR 2e−-Type Catalysts to Bifunctional Electrodes for Environmental Remediation Using the Electro-Fenton Process

This review covers the development of bifunctional electrocatalysts that combine Fenton reaction activity with selective 2-electron oxygen reduction to produce H2O2 in situ for the electro-Fenton process, enabling energy-efficient degradation of emerging contaminants in water without external peroxide addition.

2023 Catalysts 19 citations
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Advanced oxidation processes for the elimination of microplastics from aqueous systems: Assessment of efficiency, perspectives and limitations

This review evaluates advanced oxidation processes as a strategy for breaking down microplastics in water systems, comparing techniques such as photocatalysis, Fenton reactions, and ozonation. Researchers found that while these methods show promise for degrading microplastics into smaller, less harmful molecules, challenges remain in scaling them for practical use. The study identifies key limitations and suggests directions for making these technologies more efficient and applicable to real-world water treatment.

2022 The Science of The Total Environment 99 citations
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Green Chemistry Approaches for Mitigating Water Pollution: Innovations and Challenges

This review examines green chemistry approaches to water pollution remediation, evaluating innovations including photocatalysis, bio-based coagulants, and advanced oxidation processes as more sustainable alternatives to conventional water treatment methods that generate secondary pollutants.

2025 Global Journal of Science and Technology
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The efficacious of AOP-based processes in concert with electrocoagulation in abatement of CECs from water/wastewater

Researchers reviewed how combining electrocoagulation — an electrical water-cleaning method — with advanced oxidation processes like ozone, UV light, and Fenton reactions can dramatically improve the removal of hard-to-treat contaminants from water and wastewater. While these hybrid systems show strong results in the lab, the review notes that data for real-world industrial-scale applications, particularly for microplastics and pesticides, remains limited.

2023 npj Clean Water 63 citations
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Advanced Oxidation Catalysts

This volume examines advanced oxidation catalysts (AOCs) as an innovative approach to wastewater treatment, covering their design, synthesis, catalytic mechanisms, and application against persistent pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and microplastics that resist conventional treatment methods.

2025
Article Tier 2

The Application of Electrochemical Methods in Water Treatment

This review examines electrochemical methods for water treatment, covering electrocoagulation, electrooxidation, and electrodeposition processes and their applications for removing heavy metals, organic pollutants, and emerging contaminants including microplastics from water.

2025 Water
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A Short Review on Recent Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Microplastics Degradation

This review summarizes recent advances in advanced oxidation technologies (AOTs) for degrading microplastics, evaluating methods such as UV/ozone, Fenton reactions, and photocatalysis. The authors assess the efficiency, scalability, and limitations of each approach for treating microplastic-contaminated water.

2023 Journal of Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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Advanced Oxidation Techniques and Hybrid Approaches for Microplastic Degradation: A Comprehensive Review

This review examines advanced oxidation processes for degrading microplastics, including photocatalysis, electrochemical oxidation, Fenton reactions, and plasma technologies, which generate reactive species capable of breaking down polymer chains. Hybrid systems combining these oxidation methods with biological treatments or membrane filtration showed particular promise for scalable microplastic remediation. The authors identify challenges around energy consumption, secondary pollutant formation, and the need for optimization before these technologies can be integrated into existing wastewater treatment infrastructure.

2026 Catalysts
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Urban and Industrial Wastewater Disinfection and Decontamination by Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs): Current Issues and Future Trends

This review examined advanced oxidation processes for disinfecting and removing contaminants from urban and industrial wastewater before release into the environment. These treatment technologies can also help break down microplastics and associated chemical pollutants in wastewater.

2021 Water 10 citations
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Engineering functional nanocomposites for enhanced AOP-mediated microplastic mineralization: From mechanistic insights to water remediation strategies

This review examines how advanced oxidation processes such as photocatalysis, Fenton reactions, and electrocatalysis can be used to break down microplastics in water. Researchers evaluated the strengths and limitations of each technique and explored how functional nanomaterials can enhance degradation performance. The study highlights promising directions for developing scalable water treatment solutions to address microplastic contamination.

2025 Coordination Chemistry Reviews 1 citations
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Revolutionizing Wastewater Reuse: A Critical Review of Innovative Treatment Technologies for a Sustainable Energy-Water Nexus

This review critically examines innovative wastewater treatment technologies for sustainable reuse, covering advances in membrane filtration, electrochemical processes, advanced oxidation, and emerging contaminant removal including microplastics, in the context of addressing global water scarcity.

2025
Article Tier 2

Electrochemical remediation of microplastics: Progress and prospects in water treatment

This review examines electrochemical methods for removing microplastics from water, including electrocoagulation, electro-oxidation, and the electro-Fenton process. Evidence indicates that electro-oxidation can achieve removal rates as high as 99 percent under optimized conditions. The study highlights these techniques as promising alternatives for water treatment but calls for further research to scale them up for real-world applications.

2025 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 2 citations
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Photo-Fenton treatment of emerging pollutants in municipal wastewater using nanocatalysts: A sustainable approach

This study evaluated photo-Fenton oxidation using nanocatalysts as a sustainable treatment for pharmaceuticals, pesticides, personal care products, and microplastics in municipal wastewater. The nanocatalyst-driven process achieved higher removal efficiencies for emerging pollutants than conventional treatment, offering a promising upgrade for wastewater plants struggling with micropollutant removal.

2025 Results in Chemistry
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Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for the Degradation of Micro and Nano Plastic

This review assesses advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) — including photocatalysis, ozone treatment, electrocatalysis, and Fenton reactions — as methods to break down micro- and nanoplastics in water. While AOPs can degrade plastic particles, most currently achieve only modest levels of complete mineralization, meaning significant plastic residues often remain. The study highlights the need to optimize and potentially combine these techniques to develop effective water treatment solutions for removing nanoplastics from drinking water and wastewater.

2024 Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series 2 citations