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ClearNanotechnology in Wastewater Management: A New Paradigm Towards Wastewater Treatment
This review examines how nanotechnology-based methods like nano-filtration, photocatalysis, and nano-adsorbents can improve wastewater treatment. These approaches offer advantages over traditional methods, including better removal of tiny pollutants like microplastics that conventional filters miss. Improving wastewater treatment is important because treatment plants are a major pathway through which microplastics reach drinking water sources.
Removal of microplastics from wastewater: available techniques and way forward
This review surveys available techniques for removing microplastics from wastewater within a circular economy framework, discussing innovative treatment technologies, integrated risk-based approaches, and regulatory and economic guidelines needed to advance water resource recovery facilities beyond conventional pollutant removal.
Nanomaterials for microplastics remediation in wastewater: A viable step towards cleaner water
This review examines how nanomaterials, tiny engineered particles with high surface area and reactivity, can be used to remove microplastics from water more effectively than traditional methods like filtration and sedimentation. While promising, these technologies face challenges including high production costs, potential toxicity of the nanomaterials themselves, and difficulty scaling up from lab to real-world applications. Improving these methods is important because current water treatment often fails to remove the smallest and most harmful microplastic particles.
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.
Nano-Engineering for Clean Water Solutions
Scientists have reviewed how tiny engineered particles (nanotechnology) can help clean water by removing dangerous pollutants like heavy metals, leftover medicines, and microplastics that traditional filters often miss. These nano-scale materials work better than current methods because they can target specific contaminants and use less energy. While this technology shows great promise for providing safer drinking water worldwide, researchers still need to study whether these tiny particles themselves might be harmful to people or the environment.
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.
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.
Microplastics pollution from wastewater treatment plants: A critical review on challenges, detection, sustainable removal techniques and circular economy
This review critically examines the challenges of detecting and removing microplastics from wastewater treatment plants, evaluating sustainable removal technologies and circular economy approaches to address this persistent source of aquatic microplastic pollution.
Nanomaterials for Microplastic Removal from Wastewater: Current State of the Art Nanomaterials and Future Prospects
This review surveys recent advances in using nanomaterials to remove microplastics and nanoplastics from wastewater, since conventional treatment plants struggle to capture these tiny particles. Researchers evaluate different nanomaterial approaches including magnetic nanoparticles, photocatalysts, and membrane technologies. The study identifies promising strategies but notes that challenges around scalability, cost, and potential environmental risks of the nanomaterials themselves still need to be addressed.
Cutting edge technology for wastewater treatment using smart nanomaterials: recent trends and futuristic advancements
This review examines how advanced nanomaterials -- including cellulose nanocrystals, carbon nanotubes, and magnetic nanoparticles -- can be used to remove microplastics, nanoplastics, and other toxic substances from wastewater more effectively than conventional treatment methods. These "smart" nanomaterials work through absorption and adsorption and represent a promising technology for reducing the amount of plastic contamination that reaches 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.
Microbial Granule Technology—Prospects for Wastewater Treatment and Energy Production
This review covers microbial granule technology for wastewater treatment, highlighting how these dense bacterial clusters can improve treatment efficiency, reduce costs, and align with circular economy principles for resource recovery.
Modern Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Trends, Problems, and Prospects
This review examines modern wastewater treatment technologies including mechanical, biological, and physicochemical methods, highlighting that conventional systems inadequately remove emerging micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, microplastics, and nanoparticles. The authors identify key barriers to progress including high costs, aging infrastructure, and weak governance, and advocate for integrated approaches combining membrane technologies, nanomaterials, and circular economy principles.
Lifecycle, toxicology, and exposure pathways of functional nanomaterials in water treatment: Implications for environmental and human Health
This review examines the full lifecycle of functional nanomaterials used in water treatment, from their effectiveness at removing pollutants like pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and microplastics to the environmental and health risks they may pose after use. Researchers found that while these materials show strong performance, their long-term fate in the environment and potential toxicity remain insufficiently studied. The study emphasizes the need for lifecycle-based risk assessments before deploying nanomaterials at scale in water treatment systems.
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.
A review on the role of nanotechnological interventions in sequestration, mitigation and value-added product conversion of micro-/nanoplastics
This review examines how nanotechnology-based approaches can be used to capture, break down, or convert microplastics and nanoplastics into useful products. The buildup of these tiny plastic particles in water environments has become a global health and environmental concern. The review highlights promising technologies that could help clean up microplastic pollution and reduce human exposure.
A comprehensive review on impregnated magnetic nanoparticle in advanced wastewater treatment: An in-depth technical review and future directions
Researchers reviewed how iron-based magnetic nanoparticles (tiny particles 10–100 nm in size) can remove pollutants like heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics from wastewater with over 90% efficiency, while being recoverable with a magnet and reusable up to 10 times. The technology uses 20–30% less energy than traditional treatments and shows strong potential for large-scale water purification.
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.
Function of nanomaterials in the treatment of emerging pollutants in wastewater
Researchers reviewed the application of nanomaterials for treating emerging pollutants in wastewater, including microplastics, antibiotics, and endocrine disruptors. The study suggests that nanotechnology-based approaches offer promising advantages over conventional treatment methods in terms of efficiency and sustainability for addressing new types of water contaminants.
Detection and removal of microplastics in wastewater: evolution and impact
This review covers methods for detecting and removing microplastics from wastewater, which is a major pathway for microplastics to enter the environment. Microplastics in water can carry heavy metals, disease-causing organisms, and chemical additives, and are eventually consumed by aquatic life that enters the human food chain. The authors emphasize that better wastewater treatment technology is needed to reduce human exposure to microplastics through water and seafood.
Nano/microplastics in water and wastewater treatment processes – Origin, impact and potential solutions
This review examined the origin, fate, and impacts of nano- and microplastics in water and wastewater treatment processes, finding that small particle sizes and diverse polymer compositions make complete removal challenging across conventional and advanced treatment stages. The authors identify detection limitations and process instability as key barriers to effective water treatment for nanoplastics.
Micro- and nanoplastics removal mechanisms in wastewater treatment plants: A review
This review examines how conventional wastewater treatment plants remove micro- and nanoplastics, and evaluates advanced technologies like membrane filtration and electrocoagulation that could improve removal rates. While existing treatment plants can capture most microplastics, they still release significant quantities into waterways through their enormous discharge volumes. The study highlights that biological treatment steps may also transform microplastics in potentially harmful ways that need further investigation.
Removal of nanoplastics in water treatment processes: A review
This review examines technologies for removing nanoplastics from water, noting that conventional treatment processes effective for larger plastics often fail to capture these tiny particles. Researchers evaluated emerging methods including microbial degradation, membrane filtration, and photocatalysis, finding that combined approaches offer the best removal rates. The study highlights that more research is needed to develop practical, large-scale solutions for nanoplastic contamination in drinking water and wastewater.
Diving boldly into COVID‐19 contaminated wastewater: Eyes at nanotechnology‐assisted solutions
This review examined nanotechnology-assisted solutions for detecting, monitoring, and treating COVID-19 contaminated wastewater, highlighting scalable and cost-effective strategies for managing viral spread through sewage systems.