Clay based nanocomposites for removal of heavy metals from water: A review

VB Yadav, R Gadi, S Kalra - Journal of environmental management, 2019 - Elsevier
The exponential increment in world population, recent industrialization, civilization,
agricultural and household activities leads to greater levels of water pollution in terms of …

Advanced sorbents for oil‐spill cleanup: recent advances and future perspectives

J Ge, HY Zhao, HW Zhu, J Huang, LA Shi… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Oil sorbents play a very important part in the remediation processes of oil spills. To enhance
the oil‐sorption properties and simplify the oil‐recovery process, various advanced oil …

Metal/porous carbon composites for heterogeneous catalysis: old catalysts with improved performance promoted by N-doping

Y Cao, S Mao, M Li, Y Chen, Y Wang - Acs Catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
Developing novel and efficient catalysts is always an important theme for heterogeneous
catalysis from fundamental and applied research points of view. In the past, carbon materials …

Carbon materials as oil sorbents: a review on the synthesis and performance

S Gupta, NH Tai - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Oil spill accidents have urged scientists across the world to develop an immediate cleanup
technology because the spilled oil significantly affects the ecological and environmental …

A flexible carbon nanotube@ V2O5 film as a high-capacity and durable cathode for zinc ion batteries

X Wang, L Wang, B Zhang, J Feng, J Zhang… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are receiving a continuously increasing attention for
mobile devices, especially for the flexible and wearable electronics, due to their non-toxicity …

Carbon nanotube sponges, aerogels, and hierarchical composites: synthesis, properties, and energy applications

Z Lin, Z Zeng, X Gui, Z Tang, M Zou… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanotube (CNT) aerogels and sponges are macroscopic porous materials with a
unique isotropic structure. CNTs make an interconnected 3D scaffold, therefore the resulting …

Porous nanomaterials: Main vein of agricultural nanotechnology

S Sharma, BK Sahu, L Cao, P Bindra, K Kaur… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, owing to key properties such as high surface area, tailorable pore
size and excellent accessibility to active sites, porous materials have shown significant …

Designer carbon nanotubes for contaminant removal in water and wastewater: a critical review

B Sarkar, S Mandal, YF Tsang, P Kumar, KH Kim… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The search for effective materials for environmental cleanup is a scientific and technological
issue of paramount importance. Among various materials, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) …

Synthesis of a novel highly oleophilic and highly hydrophobic sponge for rapid oil spill cleanup

M Khosravi, S Azizian - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2015 - ACS Publications
A highly hydrophobic and highly oleophilic sponge was synthesized by simple vapor-phase
deposition followed by polymerization of polypyrrole followed by modification with palmitic …

Recent advances on heteroatom‐doped porous carbon/metal materials: fascinating heterogeneous catalysts for organic transformations

Y Rangraz, MM Heravi, A Elhampour - The Chemical Record, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Design and preparation of low‐cost, effective, and novel catalysts are important
topics in the field of heterogeneous catalysis from academic and industrial perspectives …