Sustainable green nanoadsorbents for remediation of pharmaceuticals from water and wastewater: A critical review

AH Khan, NA Khan, M Zubair, MA Shaida… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last three decades, pharmaceutical research has increased tremendously to offer safe
and healthy life. However, the high consumption of these harmful drugs has risen …

Electrospun composite nanofibers as novel high-performance and visible-light photocatalysts for removal of environmental pollutants: A review

S Asgari, GM Ziarani, A Badiei, F Ajalloueian… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution caused by industries and human manipulations is coming a serious
global challenge. On the other hand, the world is facing an energy crisis caused by …

Fabrication of different adsorbents based on zirconium oxide, graphene oxide, and dextrin for removal of green malachite dye from aqueous solutions

O Moradi, S Panahandeh - Environmental research, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, graphene oxide and amine graphene were studied by binding to dextrin and
zirconium oxide nanoparticles as adsorbent nanocomposites to the removal of dye …

Photocatalytic investigation of textile dyes and E. coli bacteria from wastewater using Fe3O4@ MnO2 heterojunction and investigation for hydrogen generation on …

F Ameen, A Aygun, A Seyrankaya, RNE Tiri… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Various impurities found nowadays in water can be detrimental to human health. This work
focused on utilizing Fe 3 O 4@ MnO 2 nanocomposite for cleaning organic contaminants …

Efficient removal of total arsenic (As3+/5+) from contaminated water by novel strategies mediated iron and plant extract activated waste flowers of marigold

SK Upadhyay, P Devi, V Kumar, HK Pathak, P Kumar… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
In this investigation, marigold flower-waste was activated with iron salts (MG-Fe),
subsequently marigold plant extract (MG-Fe-Ex) for the adsorptive elimination of As 3+ and …

A novel hydrogel beads based copper-doped Cerastoderma edule shells@ Alginate biocomposite for highly fungicide sorption from aqueous medium

K Aziz, M El Achaby, R Mamouni, N Saffaj, F Aziz - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The engineering of a novel biocomposite based on Cerastoderma edule shells doped with
copper and alginate (Ce–Cu@ Alg) forming hydrogel beads was used for batch and …

Separation of organic contaminant (dye) using the modified porous metal-organic framework (MIL)

O Moradi, ID Sharabaf - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, the porous metal-organic framework (MIL-88B: Materials Institute Lavoisier) was
synthesized and identified by FT-IR (Fourier transform infrared), SEM (Scanning Electron …

Removal of Penicillin G from aqueous medium by PPI@ SBA-15/ZIF-8 super adsorbent: Adsorption isotherm, thermodynamic, and kinetic studies

M Sadeghi, M Moradian, HA Tayebi, A Mirabi - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present paper, synthesis of SBA-15 nanoparticles was carried out from tetraethyl
orthosilicate (TEOS) precursor using the sol-gel process. After being combined with Poly …

Low-cost silica xerogels as potential adsorbents for ciprofloxacin removal

GG Kaya, E Aznar, H Deveci… - Sustainable Chemistry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ciprofloxacin, a second generation fluoroquinolone antibiotic, is one of the top
pharmaceutical contaminants in water and many approaches have been developed for the …

Molecularly imprinted magnetic nanocomposite based on carboxymethyl dextrin for removal of ciprofloxacin antibiotic from contaminated water

G Heidari, FH Afruzi, EN Zare - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Broad-spectrum antibiotics from the fluoroquinolone family have emerged as prominent
water contaminants, among other pharmaceutical pollutants. In the present study, an …