Nanomaterials for sustainable remediation of chemical contaminants in water and soil

Mukhopadhyay, R. and Sarkar, B. and Khan, E. and Alessi, D.S. and Biswas, J.K. and Manjaiah, K.M. and Eguchi, M. and Wu, K.C.W. and Yamauchi, Y. and Ok, Y.S. (2022) Nanomaterials for sustainable remediation of chemical contaminants in water and soil. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 52 (15). pp. 2611-2660. ISSN 1064-3389

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Abstract

Rapid growth in population, industry, urbanization and intensive agriculture have led to soil and water pollution by various contaminants. Nanoremediation has become one of the most successful emerging technologies for cleaning up soil and water contaminants due to the high reactivity of nanomaterials (NMs). Numerous publications are available on the use of NMs for removing contaminants, and the efficiencies are often improved by modifications of NMs with polymers, clay minerals, zeolites, activated carbon, and biochar. This paper critically reviews the current state-of-the-art NMs used for sustainable soil and water remediation, focusing on their applications in novel remedial approaches, such as adsorption/filtration, catalysis, photodegradation, electro-nanoremediation, and nano-bioremediation. Insights into process performances, modes of deployment, potential environmental risks and their management, and the consequent societal and economic implications of using NMs for soil and water remediation indicate that widespread acceptance of nanoremediation technologies requires not only a substantial advancement of the underpinning science and engineering aspects themselves, but also practical demonstrations of the effectiveness of already recognized approaches at real world in-situ conditions. New research involving green nanotechnology, nano-bioremediation, electro-nanoremediation, risk assessment of NMs, and outreach activities are needed to achieve successful applications of nanoremediation at regional and global scales.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
Additional Information:
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology on 25/02/2021, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10643389.2021.1886891
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Subjects:
?? environmental protectiongreen and sustainable remediationsoil pollutionsoil remediationsustainable development goalswastewater treatmentagricultural robotsbioremediationbiotechnologycontaminationenvironmental technologynanostructured materialspopulation s ??
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152910
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18 Mar 2021 16:35
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