Heavy metal water pollution: A fresh look about hazards, novel and conventional remediation methods

C Zamora-Ledezma, D Negrete-Bolagay… - … Technology & Innovation, 2021 - Elsevier
Water pollution is one of the global challenges that society must address in the 21st century
aiming to improve water quality and reduce human and ecosystem health impacts …

Strategies to improve the adsorption properties of graphene-based adsorbent towards heavy metal ions and their compound pollutants: A review

Q Kong, X Shi, W Ma, F Zhang, T Yu, F Zhao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heavy metal-containing wastewater can be treated by adsorption technology to obtain ultra-
low concentration or high-quality treated effluent. Due to the constraints of the specific …

Mixed-valence molybdenum oxide as a recyclable sorbent for silver removal and recovery from wastewater

P Shao, Z Chang, M Li, X Lu, W Jiang, K Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Silver ions in wastewater streams are a major pollutant and a threat to human health. Given
the increasing demand and relative scarcity of silver, these streams could be a lucrative …

Metallic Two-Dimensional MoS2 Composites as High-Performance Osmotic Energy Conversion Membranes

C Zhu, P Liu, B Niu, Y Liu, W Xin, W Chen… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has shown large promise in harvesting osmotic energy.
However, the current investigations generally focus on proof-of-concept nanoscale single …

Sustainable and efficient technologies for removal and recovery of toxic and valuable metals from wastewater: Recent progress, challenges, and future perspectives

A Abidli, Y Huang, ZB Rejeb, A Zaoui, CB Park - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their numerous effects on human health and the natural environment, water
contamination with heavy metals and metalloids, caused by their extensive use in various …

Enhanced activation of peroxymonosulfate by ball-milled MoS2 for degradation of tetracycline: Boosting molybdenum activity by sulfur vacancies

X Li, Y Guo, L Yan, T Yan, W Song, R Feng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Though molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) has attracted widely attention in SO 4•–based
advanced oxidation process recently, the effect of ball milling on its catalytic efficiency is less …

Critical review of advances in engineering nanomaterial adsorbents for metal removal and recovery from water: mechanism identification and engineering design

J Luo, D Yu, KD Hristovski, K Fu, Y Shen… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterial adsorbents (NAs) have shown promise to efficiently remove toxic metals from
water, yet their practical use remains challenging. Limited understanding of adsorption …

Engineered two-dimensional nanomaterials: an emerging paradigm for water purification and monitoring

M Zeng, M Chen, D Huang, S Lei, X Zhang… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Water scarcity has become an increasingly complex challenge with the growth of the global
population, economic expansion, and climate change, highlighting the demand for …

Polypyrrole coated molybdenum disulfide composites as adsorbent for enhanced removal of Cr (VI) in aqueous solutions by adsorption combined with reduction

L Xiang, CG Niu, N Tang, XX Lv, H Guo, ZW Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, polypyrrole coated molybdenum disulfide organic–inorganic composites
(PPy/MoS 2) were fabricated by a simple in-situ oxidative polymerization, and used as a …

MoS2-based membranes in water treatment and purification

Y Liu, Y Zhao, X Zhang, X Huang, W Liao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane separation technologies have proven viable in tackling the issues of water
pollution and shortage of freshwater resources with practical applications. Two-dimensional …