Emerging electrochemical techniques for identifying and removing micro/nanoplastics in urban waters

Z Chen, W Wei, X Liu, BJ Ni - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The ubiquitous micro/nanoplastics (MPs/NPs) in urban waters are priority pollutants due to
their toxic effects on living organisms. Currently, great efforts have been made to realize a …

Electrochemical processes for the treatment of contaminant-rich wastewater: A comprehensive review

G de Vargas Brião, TB da Costa, R Antonelli, JM Costa - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Global water demand and environmental concerns related to climate change require
industries to develop high-efficiency wastewater treatment methods to remove pollutants …

A capacitive deionization and electro-oxidation hybrid system for simultaneous removal of heavy metals and organics from wastewater

W Chen, X He, Z Jiang, B Li, X Li, L Lin - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Capacitive deionization is an appealing technology to remove and recover heavy metal ions
from wastewater. However, the co-existing organic pollutants in actual wastewater greatly …

A new approach of simultaneous adsorption and regeneration of activated carbon to address the bottlenecks of pharmaceutical wastewater treatment

W Qin, Y Dong, H Jiang, WH Loh, J Imbrogno… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
This study proposes a sustainable approach for hard-to-treat wastewater using sintered
activated carbon (SAC) both as an adsorption filter and as an electrode, allowing its …

Recovery of rare earth by electro-sorption with sodium diphenylamine sulfonate modified activated carbon electrode

L Wang, Y Gao, Y Chai, X Sun - Separation and Purification Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Electro-sorption has been used for water purification and desalination, but little research on
the recovery of rare earth element (REE) in aqueous solution. In this work, sodium …

Sludge-derived hierarchically porous carbon electrode prepared via CaCO3-assisted dual crosslinking for enhanced phosphate electrosorption

J Zheng, Y Han, L Wei, L Zhu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Electrosorption is considered a promising technology to remove charged pollutants in an
efficient and green way, wherein the electrode materials are crucial for achieving its high …

On the electrode charge at the metal/solution interface with specific adsorption

MK Zhang, J Cai, YX Chen - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The electrode charge is one of the most fundamental concepts in electrochemistry. However,
ambiguousness often comes to its definition as specific adsorption occurs. In this review …

Development of a capacitive deionization stack with highly porous oxygen-doped carbon electrodes for brackish water desalination in remote coastal areas

VC Dinh, NM Hiep, TTH Hoa, VA Nguyen… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study demonstrates the development and application of a capacitive deionization (CDI)
stack in treating saline water to provide safe drinking water to remote coastal areas. The …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing in wastewater treatment using sustainable electrosorbents

A Fdez-Sanromán, M Pazos, E Rosales… - current opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Separation and purification processes using adsorption are becoming more and more
popular, with excellent benefit-cost ratio and high effluent quality. However, it is important to …

[HTML][HTML] Electric field as a useful tool to improve the poor adsorption affinity of pollutants on carbonaceous aerogel pellets

A Puga, J Meijide, M Pazos, E Rosales… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
The removal of ionisable drugs (fluoxetine, sulfamethizole and antipyrine) from aqueous
solution was performed by conventional adsorption using carbonaceous aerogel pellets as …