Toward selective oxidation of contaminants in aqueous systems

Z Yang, J Qian, C Shan, H Li, Y Yin… - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The presence of diverse pollutants in water has been threating human health and aquatic
ecosystems on a global scale. For more than a century, chemical oxidation using strongly …

Metal-free carbon materials for persulfate-based advanced oxidation process: Microstructure, property and tailoring

J Yu, H Feng, L Tang, Y Pang, G Zeng, Y Lu… - Progress in Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Metal-free carbon materials (MFCMs), as newly emerging efficient catalysts in persulfate-
based advanced oxidation process (PS-AOP), have exhibited great engineering-application …

Density functional theory calculations for insight into the heterocatalyst reactivity and mechanism in persulfate-based advanced oxidation reactions

P Zhang, Y Yang, X Duan, Y Liu, S Wang - ACS catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) based on persulfates such as peroxymonosulfate
and peroxydisulfate via heterogeneous catalysts have been a research hotspot due to their …

Activation of peroxydisulfate on carbon nanotubes: electron-transfer mechanism

W Ren, L Xiong, X Yuan, Z Yu, H Zhang… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This study proposed an electrochemical technique for investigating the mechanism of
nonradical oxidation of organics with peroxydisulfate (PDS) activated by carbon nanotubes …

Reactive high-valent iron intermediates in enhancing treatment of water by ferrate

VK Sharma, M Feng, DD Dionysiou… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Efforts are being made to tune the reactivity of the tetraoxy anion of iron in the+ 6 oxidation
state (FeVIO42–), commonly called ferrate, to further enhance its applications in various …

Cobalt/peracetic acid: advanced oxidation of aromatic organic compounds by acetylperoxyl radicals

J Kim, P Du, W Liu, C Luo, H Zhao… - … Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Peracetic acid (PAA) is increasingly used as an alternative disinfectant and its advanced
oxidation processes (AOPs) could be useful for pollutant degradation. Co (II) or Co (III) can …

Degradation of organic contaminants by reactive iron/manganese species: progress and challenges

B Shao, H Dong, G Zhou, J Ma, VK Sharma, X Guan - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Many iron (II, III, VI)-and manganese (II, IV, VII)-based oxidation processes can
generate reactive iron/manganese species (RFeS/RMnS, ie, Fe (IV)/Fe (V) and Mn (III)/Mn …

In situ-formed phenoxyl radical on the CuO surface triggers efficient persulfate activation for phenol degradation

M Huang, Y Han, W Xiang, D Zhong… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal oxide (M x O y)-based persulfate (PDS) activation processes have
demonstrated enormous potential for pollutant degradation in water purification. However …

Effect of Metal Ions on Oxidation of Micropollutants by Ferrate(VI): Enhancing Role of FeIV Species

X Zhang, M Feng, C Luo, N Nesnas… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This paper investigated the oxidation of recalcitrant micropollutants [ie, atenolol (ATL),
flumequine, aspartame, and diatrizoic acid] by combining ferrate (VI)(FeVIO42–, FeVI) with a …

Machine learning-assisted QSAR models on contaminant reactivity toward four oxidants: combining small data sets and knowledge transfer

S Zhong, Y Zhang, H Zhang - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To develop predictive models for the reactivity of organic contaminants toward four
oxidants─ SO4•–, HClO, O3, and ClO2─ all with small sample sizes, we proposed two …