Polymeric Sorbents for Water Treatment: Recent Advances and Developments
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Circular and Green Polymer Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2024) | Viewed by 619
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Interests: Water purification, photo catalytic degradation, fluorescent probe for chemical sensing, cancer cell treatment.
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Dear Colleagues,
This Polymers (MDPI) collection is dedicated to the purification of alternative (impaired) environmental water sources, by identifying a suitable polymeric- and bio-polymeric-based sorbents such as those commercially available and synthetically developed and subsequently tailored with suitable modifications to the fluorescent probe for the sensing of heavy metals, aromatic nitro compounds, volatile organic compounds, organic dyes, and pesticides, including insecticides from various other emerging pollutants in the environmental sector. Successively, this developed adsorbent must be applied for water treatment applications in lab scale and industrial needs, an additionally the research gaps needed for freshwater necessities, state-of-the-art technologies and developments, and the improvements needed to reduce cost-effective treatments such as wastewater remediation. The published papers will cover the fields of groundwater (geo-thermal), industrial, and agricultural water reclamation, seawater desalination, and municipal water purification, as well as recycling and reuse for diverse applications.
The Special Issue will publish innovative research on:
- Novel adsorbent materials for the eradication of evolving contaminants in atmospheric water.
- Recent trends and advances in bio-(chemical) water treatment methods.
- Cost effective sorbents for sustainable drinking water and wastewater treatment approaches.
- Water quality assessments/techniques for untreated water.
- Environmental remediation from industrial and atmospheric water treatments and the re-use strategy.
- A suitably tailored fluorescent probe for the sensing of heavy metals, aromatic nitro compounds, and other emerging pollutants for their eradication from atmospheric pollutions.
Dr. Santhana Krishna Kumar Alagarsamy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water purification
- fluorescent probe for sensing
- photo catalytic degradation
- seawater desalination
- wastewater remediation
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