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ClearCurrent 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.