Design and Preparation of Environmental Functional Materials for Pollutant Removal
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials in Separation Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: functional materials; electrochemistry; wastewater purification
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of society and technology, the types and amounts of wastewater generated have increased dramatically, followed by the urgent need of wastewater treatment. Great damage to the ecological environment and human health risks would be caused if wastewater is discharged into the environment directly without appropriate treatment. Advanced functional material exploration matched with different wastewater treatment processes, such as membrane separation, adsorption, advanced oxidant process, electro-chemical technology, etc., have been research hotspots. This Special Issue aims to provide some instructive reviews and research in the synthesis, characterizations, and applications of advanced functional materials for wastewater purification and resource recovery from pollutants.
Therefore, it is my pleasure to invite you to contribute your research articles, communications, or reviews to this Special Issue dedicated to treatment processes, mechanisms, functional materials, reactor design, and resource recovery in wastewater purification.
Dr. Yujun Zhou
Guest Editor
Dr. Jianfei Li
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- membrane separation
- electrochemical technology
- adsorption
- resource recovery
- electrodes and reactor design
- wastewater treatment
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