Advanced Sorbents for Clean Water Production
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films and Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 3505
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transport properties (mainly diffusion coefficients in liquids and supercritical fluids; phenomenological modeling; molecular dynamics simulations); separation processes (adsorption/simulated moving bed; ion exchange; membranes; supercritical fluid extraction); synthesis and characterization of microporous materials for catalysis and separation processes
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Interests: Remediation of metal contaminated waters by sorption processes, either by reusing biowastes as sorbents either by developing highly selective and efficient magnetic nanomaterials for target elements. Synthesis/application of magnetic graphene-based composites for the removal of metal ions and recovery of technology critical elements, such as lanthanides or Platinum group elements, from water samples
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the United Nations, in 2017, an estimated 3 billion people worldwide lacked the ability to safely wash their hands at home—one of the cheapest, easiest, and most effective ways to prevent the spread of diseases like COVID-19. Furthermore, despite the scientific and technological progress witnessed over the last few decades, 2.2 billion people throughout the world still lack access to safely managed water. To fight against these numbers, one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations is to improve water quality by 2030 by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater, and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.
Fortunately, the growing awareness and sense of responsibility for the environment are imposing increasingly restrictive limits on pollutants discharged into the environment. Adsorption and ion exchange are well-established simple and effective separation processes that can be applied to drinking water treatment, advanced wastewater treatment, and nonpotable and potable reuse, helping to improve water quality and management. Many articles on new sorbents (i.e., adsorbents and ion exchangers) and membranes are published every year, including biosorbents (popular due to their availability and low cost) and various nanomaterials, functionalized hybrid solids, composites, and polymeric materials. In all cases, the main objective is the preparation of high-capacity sorbents exhibiting favorable kinetics and other designed properties.
In this context, it is our pleasure to invite you to submit your recent achievements—both theoretical and experimental—to this Special Issue as original research articles or reviews. Contributions on the development and characterization of biosorbents and new advanced materials, as well as their application to the removal of contaminants from synthetic and real waters, regeneration, and final disposal, are greatly welcomed.
Prof. Carlos Manuel Silva
Dr. Cláudia B. Lopes
Prof. Eduarda Pereira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adsorption/desorption
- ion exchange
- nanoparticles
- zeotypes
- biosorbents
- composites
- functionalized materials
- remediation/recovery
- decontamination
- water and wastewater treatment
- resource recovery from wastewater
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