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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.

2023 ACS Applied Nano Materials 34 citations
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A review on metal organic frameworks (MOFs) modified membrane for remediation of water pollution

This review covers how metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be incorporated into membranes to improve filtration of pollutants from contaminated water. The technology shows promise for removing microplastics and chemical contaminants, though most applications remain at laboratory scale.

2020 Environmental Engineering Research 27 citations
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Current Trend of MOFs Incorporated Membranes for Advanced Wastewater Treatment

This review covers the use of metal-organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles incorporated into membrane filters to improve wastewater treatment performance, including better rejection of persistent pollutants. Advanced membrane technologies incorporating nanomaterials also show potential for removing microplastics from water, making this treatment research broadly relevant.

2023 ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering 1 citations
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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.

2025 Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 8 citations
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Emerging Materials for Mixed-Matrix Membranes

This special issue overview summarizes recent advances in developing new filler materials for mixed-matrix membranes, used for gas separation and water purification. These membrane technologies have potential applications in filtering microplastics and other contaminants from water.

2021 Membranes 8 citations
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Novel Materials for the Removal of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Drinking Water Treatment: A Comprehensive Review

This review systematically assessed novel materials—including metal-organic frameworks, bio-based adsorbents, and advanced membranes—for removing microplastics and nanoplastics from drinking water. The authors found that conventional treatment removes as little as 48.4% of particles and that emerging nanomaterial-based approaches can achieve higher efficiencies, though scalability and cost remain barriers.

2025 Water Environment Research
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Metal–organic framework applications for microplastic remediation: exploring pathways and future potential

This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (specialized porous materials) can be used to capture and remove microplastics from water. Microplastics are emerging contaminants that threaten aquatic ecosystems and human health. The paper explores different remediation pathways and the future potential of these advanced materials for cleaning up microplastic pollution.

2025 Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10 citations
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Metal-organic framework membrane for waterborne micro/nanoplastics treatment

Researchers reviewed the potential of metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes — materials with highly tunable pore structures — to filter micro- and nanoplastics from water more effectively than conventional filtration. MOF membranes showed promise due to their adjustable surface chemistry and resistance to biological fouling, though challenges like particle clumping and structural stability still need to be resolved.

2023 Chemical Engineering Journal 60 citations
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Innovative Physical and Chemical Strategies for the Modification and Development of Polymeric Microfiltration Membranes—A Review

This review covers physical and chemical strategies for modifying polymeric microfiltration membranes to improve their performance and reduce fouling in water, dairy, beverage, and pharmaceutical processing. While not exclusively focused on microplastics, these membrane technologies are directly relevant as filtration barriers for removing micro- and nanoplastic particles from treated water.

2026 Polymers
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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.

2024 Polymers 16 citations
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Preparation and Modification of New Functional Materials for Organic Pollutant Elimination

This review examines the design and modification of advanced functional materials for eliminating organic pollutants from water, covering biomass-derived polymers, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, and other biocompatible materials developed to address emerging contaminants including PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics.

2024
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The Application of Metal–Organic Frameworks in Water Treatment and Their Large-Scale Preparation: A Review

This review examines metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), highly porous materials being developed for water treatment that can remove pollutants including microplastics through filtration and catalytic breakdown. MOFs have exceptional surface area and can be tailored to target specific contaminants, making them promising for advanced water purification. The challenge remains scaling up MOF production for real-world water treatment use, which could help reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water.

2024 Materials 19 citations
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Multifunctional Membranes for Environmental Remediation

This book chapter reviews how multi-functional membranes — materials that combine filtration with catalytic, antimicrobial, and self-cleaning properties — can address water and air pollution including microplastics and emerging contaminants. The review is relevant because advanced membrane technology is one of the most promising engineering approaches for removing microplastics from drinking water and wastewater before they reach the environment.

2026
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A review of microplastic removal from water and wastewater by membrane technologies

This review examines how membrane filtration technologies can remove microplastics from drinking water and wastewater. Researchers found that advanced membranes like nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, and membrane bioreactors are among the most effective methods for capturing microplastic particles that conventional treatment plants miss. The study compares membrane approaches with other removal methods and discusses the challenges of membrane fouling caused by microplastic accumulation.

2023 Water Science & Technology 146 citations
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Chemical Regeneration of Mixed‐Matrix Membranes for Micropollutant Removal from Wastewater

This paper investigates chemical regeneration of mixed-matrix membranes embedded with adsorbents for removing pharmaceutical micropollutants from wastewater. It is focused on dissolved chemical contaminants rather than microplastics and is not directly relevant to microplastic research.

2023 Chemie Ingenieur Technik 9 citations
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Nano/microplastics: Fragmentation, interaction with co-existing pollutants and their removal from wastewater using membrane processes

This review explores how nano- and microplastics fragment from larger plastic debris and interact with other pollutants like heavy metals and pharmaceuticals in water environments. Researchers examined how these tiny particles can adsorb hazardous substances onto their surfaces, potentially increasing health risks for humans and aquatic organisms. The study also evaluates membrane-based filtration technologies as promising methods for removing these combined contaminants from wastewater.

2022 Chemosphere 86 citations
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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.

2020 Nanomaterials 196 citations
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Recent developments in microplastic contaminated water treatment: Progress and prospects of carbon-based two-dimensional materials for membranes separation

This review assessed recent advances in microplastic removal from contaminated water, covering physical, chemical, and biological treatment methods and their effectiveness across different plastic sizes, polymer types, and water chemistries. The authors identify membrane filtration and coagulation as among the most promising scalable approaches.

2022 Chemosphere 56 citations
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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.

2024 Magna Scientia Advanced Research and Reviews 19 citations
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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.

2025 Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology
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Advancements in Sustainable Membrane Technologies for Enhanced Remediation and Wastewater Treatment: A Comprehensive Review

This review covers membrane filtration technologies—reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, and ultrafiltration—as methods for removing contaminants from water, with relevance to microplastic and nanoplastic removal from drinking water and wastewater. Advancing membrane-based treatment is critical for reducing the microplastic load in treated water that humans and ecosystems are ultimately exposed to.

2023 Acadlore Transactions on Geosciences 10 citations
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Microplastics removal from aqueous environment by metal organic frameworks

This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of advanced porous materials, can remove 70-99.9% of microplastics from water in laboratory settings. MOFs can be customized with specific pore sizes and chemical properties to target different types of microplastics. While challenges remain with cost and scaling up, this technology shows promise for developing more effective water treatment systems to reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water.

2023 BMC Chemistry 50 citations
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Recent Advances in Biopolymeric Membranes towards the Removal of Emerging Organic Pollutants from Water

This review covers biopolymeric membrane applications for removing emerging organic pollutants from wastewater, comparing biodegradable cellulose and carrageenan-derived nanostructured membranes to conventional synthetic membranes and evaluating their performance and environmental sustainability.

2021 Membranes 56 citations
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Double-Modified Composite Membranes with Organic Framework Nanoparticles for Nanoplastics Removal: Insights from Density Functional Theory Modeling

Researchers developed a dual-modified composite membrane combining hydrogen-bonded organic framework and metal-organic framework nanoparticles, achieving both high water permeability and strong rejection of nanoplastic particles, outperforming single-modification membranes in water treatment performance.

2025 ACS ES&T Water 2 citations