Advancement factors in sludge dewatering technology for wastewater treatment from engineering and economic perspectives: A review
June 2024
The importance of the purifying municipal and industrial wastewater has increased due to a dramatically enhancing flow of sewage sludge in the last decades. There are various types of sludge including...
Hydrogel-based nanocomposites for enhanced environmental remediation
Available online 19 December 2025
Nanocomposites based on hydrogels have garnered significant attention as a class of advanced materials well-suited for environmental remediation applications due to their distinctive architecture, composition,...
Hydrogel-based superadsorbents for efficient removal of heavy metals in industrial wastewater treatment and environmental conservation
August 2023
Superadsorbent hydrogels have become a viable solution to the urgent problem of industrial wastewater contamination. This paper offers a thorough analysis of the most recent advancements in superadsorbent...
Strategies and technologies for sustainable plastic waste treatment and recycling
April 2025
Discarded plastics in natural environments contribute significantly to “white pollution” due to their high persistence and potential for bioaccumulation. Improperly managed waste plastics further exacerbate...
Advances in nanofiltration membrane pore size adjustment techniques: A review
April 2025
With the rapid advancement of the renewable energy industry, the strategic significance of precise pore size regulation in nanofiltration membranes (NF) has become a central research focus, particularly...
Modified Titanium dioxide-based photocatalysts for water treatment: Mini review
March 2024
Titanium dioxide (TiO2), recognized for its affordability, low cost, high chemical stability, and eco-friendliness, has garnered extensive research attention in recent years. But because of the TiO2...
Plastic wastes derived carbon materials for green energy and sustainable environmental applications
March 2022
Plastic waste has become a serious environmental issue and has attracted increasing attention. Various treatment technologies have been developed for the remediation of this waste, including degradation,...
Microwave-assisted synthesis of bimetallic NiCo-MOF-74 with enhanced open metal site for efficient CO2 capture
September 2022
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) containing two different inorganic metal nodes (known as bimetallic MOFs) could exhibit enhanced CO2 adsorption compared to their monometallic counterparts. Herein, a...
Efficient and stable direct air capture with amine-functionalized MIL-100(Cr) metal-organic framework
December 2025
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising for Direct Air Capture (DAC) due to their tunable pore structures, large surface areas, and chemical functionalization. Amine-functionalized MOFs significantly...
Agricultural lignocellulose biochar material in wastewater treatment: A critical review and sustainability assessment
August 2025
Globally, roughly 380 trillion liters of wastewater are generated annually, with a significant portion remaining untreated due to expensive treatment and lack of expertise, consequently, leading severe...
FeCo bimetallic MOF/PVDF mixed matrix membrane coupled with PMS activation for tetracycline degradation: High efficiency and reaction mechanisms
December 2025
To address the tetracycline removal challenge in water treatment, this study developed novel FeCo-metal-organic framework (MOF) material/polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) mixed matrix membranes (MMMs)...
UiO-66(Zr)-based functional materials for water purification: An updated review
August 2023
UiO-66, as a kind of classic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), was foreseen as one of the most promising MOF materials for practical water purification, benefiting from its merits of rich pores, super-huge...
Recent progress on single-atom catalysts in advanced oxidation processes for water treatment
September 2022
Single-atom catalysts (SACs), consisting of metal single atoms and supporting materials, have shown remarkable potential due to their ultrahigh catalytic performances, maximum atomic utilization and...
Generation and regulation of high-valent metal species in advanced oxidation processes
April 2025
Emerging pollutants are highly stable, with low content but great harm, and traditional water treatment methods are difficult to completely remove them. In the actual water treatment process of advanced...
Morphological evaluation of green synthesized, modified TiO2 and ZnO nanomaterials and their photocatalytic behavior in water treatment
December 2025
The emergence of nanotechnology has opened new avenues for various nano-structured materials, especially in wastewater treatment applications. However, the chemical reagents and processes for developing...
Recent advances in the fixed-electrode capacitive deionization (CDI): Innovations in electrode materials and applications
December 2023
Conventional capacitive deionization (CDI), originally developed as a promising desalination technique based on the formation of electric double layers (EDLs) at the surface of porous electrodes, has...
Tailor-made adsorbent materials on machine learning instructions for efficient purification of heavy metal contaminants in wastewater
Available online 8 December 2025
Heavy metal pollution is becoming an increasingly serious environmental and public health concern. As a result, developing efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable wastewater treatment technologies...
Exciton engineering in organic photocatalysis: mechanisms and applications
Available online 11 December 2025
Organic photocatalysts, with tunable structures, abundant resources, and adjustable bandgaps, serve as versatile platforms for solar energy conversion, synthesis, and environmental remediation. To date,...
Enhanced ibuprofen removal from wastewater using Ni-doped ZIF-67 MOF: Synthesis, characterization, and impact of doping on adsorption performance
August 2025
The purification of wastewater from pharmaceutical contaminants like ibuprofen (IBP) has become a critical issue due to its widespread usage, making the removal of such pollutants essential for the...
CO2 capture and conversion into valuable chemicals using graphitic carbon nitride: A review
June 2024
Carbon dioxide emission to the atmosphere are the main cause of global warming and the accompanying climate change. Accordingly, effective approaches have to be developed/implemented to tackle CO2 emission...
Recent advances in electrochemical removal and recovery of phosphorus from water: A review
March 2022
Phosphorus (P) is an essential microelement for biota. Phosphate minerals obtained through subsurface mining are the main sources of P. Phosphate-bearing rocks are nonrenewable and reserves are limited,...
A scoping review of gaseous pollutant emissions from solid fuel combustion and vicennial advancement in adsorbent materials for their mitigation programs
Available online 12 November 2025
Smoke generated from solid fuel combustion is typically composed of CO2 (70–90 %), CO (7–10 %), CH4 (1–3 %), VOCs (2–5 %), NOx (2–4 %), and SO2 (1–3 %), as reported in earlier studies. Such harmful...
A review of biochar functionalized by thermal air oxidation
June 2022
Biochar, the product of anaerobic pyrolysis of biomass, has attracted immense interest not only as an adsorbent in agricultural and environmental remediation applications but also as a carbonaceous...
Environment-sensitive and fast room temperature CO2 gas sensor based on ZnO, NiO and Ni-ZnO nanocomposite materials
August 2023
In contrast to other ZnO and NiO-based sensors, ZnO, NiO, and Ni-ZnO-based sensors were fabricated for this work in order to enhance CO2 gas sensing properties at various concentrations. Nanomaterials...
Synergistic activation of peroxymonosulfate by defective CuBi2O4 with oxygen vacancies and Cu+ towards efficient photocatalytic antibiotics degradation
April 2025
Transition metal ions containing materials is promising for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation in tetracycline removal. However, the combination of transition metal ions and photocatalytic process has...