Phosphorus adsorption by functionalized biochar: a review

D Luo, L Wang, H Nan, Y Cao, H Wang… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Phosphorus is essential element for agricultural production, yet phosphorus ore resources
are non-renewable and become depleted. Moreover, phosphate release from wastewater …

Biochar as a low-cost adsorbent for aqueous heavy metal removal: A review

B Qiu, X Tao, H Wang, W Li, X Ding, H Chu - Journal of Analytical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
As an efficient and low-cost adsorbent, biochar has attracted extensive attention and
research in the field of heavy metal pollution water treatment due to its superiority in heavy …

Recent advances in activated carbon modification techniques for enhanced heavy metal adsorption

M Mariana, AK HPS, EM Mistar, EB Yahya… - Journal of Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
The contamination of water with heavy metals is a global issue. Its water solubility and non-
degradability nature convert it into a potential threat to human health as well as flora and …

A review on persulfates activation by functional biochar for organic contaminants removal: Synthesis, characterizations, radical determination, and mechanism

C Wang, R Huang, R Sun, J Yang… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, refractory organic pollutants (ROPs) have been progressively detected in
wastewater. Persulfates (peroxymonosulfate and peroxydisulfate)-based advanced …

Straw-derived biochar for the removal of antibiotics from water: Adsorption and degradation mechanisms, recent advancements and challenges

X Zhang, T Bhattacharya, C Wang, A Kumar… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotics, a kind of containments with the properties of widely distributed and difficult to
degrade, has aroused extensive attention in the world. As a prevalent agricultural waste …

Adsorption of potentially toxic elements in water by modified biochar: A review

A Zhang, X Li, J Xing, G Xu - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biochar, as a adsorbent, can remove potentially toxic elements (PTE) in water by physical
adsorption, as well as chemical interactions such as ion exchange, electrostatic attraction …

[HTML][HTML] Biochar application: A sustainable approach to improve soil health

SPS Yadav, S Bhandari, D Bhatta, A Poudel… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil is a fundamental part of successful agriculture, and its quality has to be improved to
maximize crop yield and soil fertility. To increase crop productivity and soil fertility, biochar …

Latest trends in heavy metal removal from wastewater by biochar based sorbents

S Gupta, S Sireesha, I Sreedhar, CM Patel… - Journal of Water Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biochar, a solid carbon-rich residue is derived from wide variety of abundantly available raw
materials like forest and agricultural waste, industrial by products and waste, and municipal …

A facile one-pot hydrothermal synthesis of hydroxyapatite/biochar nanocomposites: adsorption behavior and mechanisms for the removal of copper (II) from aqueous …

KW Jung, SY Lee, JW Choi, YJ Lee - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, hydroxyapatite/biochar nanocomposites (HAP/BC-NCs) were synthesized
through a simple one-pot hydrothermal process and utilized as an adsorbent for the removal …

Preparation, environmental application and prospect of biochar-supported metal nanoparticles: A review

J Liu, J Jiang, Y Meng, A Aihemaiti, Y Xu… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biochar is a low-cost, porous, and carbon-rich material and it exhibits a great potential as an
adsorbent and a supporting matrix due to its high surface activity, high specific surface area …