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ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international2020

Adsorption, degradation, and mineralization of emerging pollutants (pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals) by nanostructures: a comprehensive review.

Monika Jain, Ackmez Mudhoo, Deepika Lakshmi Ramasamy, Mahsa Najafi, Muhammad Usman, Runliang Zhu, Gopalakrishnan Kumar, Sutha Shobana, Vinod Kumar Garg, Mika Sillanpää

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Review in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Monika JainDepartment of Natural Resource Management, College of Forestry, Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda, Uttar Pradesh, 210001, India.
Ackmez MudhooDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius, Réduit, 80837, Mauritius. a.mudhoo@uom.ac.mu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5712-6673
Deepika Lakshmi RamasamyDepartment of Separation Science, School of Engineering Science, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Sammonkatu 12, FI-50130, Mikkeli, Finland.
Mahsa NajafiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Muhammad UsmanPEIE Research Chair for the Development of Industrial Estates and Free Zones, Center for Environmental Studies and Research, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud, 123, Muscat, Oman.
Runliang ZhuCAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou, 510640, China.
Gopalakrishnan KumarInstitute of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, Box 8600 Forus, 4036, Stavanger, Norway.
Sutha ShobanaDepartment of Chemistry & Research Centre, Mohamed Sathak Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.
Vinod Kumar GargCentre for Environmental Sciences and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, 151001, India.
Mika SillanpääInstitute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam. mikaetapiosillanpaa@duytan.edu.vn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3247-5337

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review discusses a fresh pool of research findings reported on the multiple roles played by metal-based, magnetic, graphene-type, chitosan-derived, and sonicated nanoparticles in the treatment of pharmaceutical- and agrochemical-contaminated waters. Some main points from this review are as follows: (i) there is an extensive number of nanoparticles with diverse physicochemical and morphological properties which have been synthesized and then assessed in their respective roles in the degradation and mineralization of many pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, (ii) the exceptional removal efficiencies of graphene-based nanomaterials for different pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals molecules support arguably well a high potential of these nanomaterials for futuristic applications in remediating water pollution issues, (iii) the need for specific surface modifications and functionalization of parent nanostructures and the design of economically feasible production methods of such tunable nanomaterials tend to hinder their widespread applicability at this stage, (iv) supplementary research is also required to comprehensively elucidate the life cycle ecotoxicity characteristics and behaviors of each type of engineered nanostructures seeded for remediation of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals in real contaminated media, and last but not the least, (v) real wastewaters are extremely complex in composition due to the mix of inorganic and organic species in different concentrations, and the presence of such mixed species have different radical scavenging effects on the sonocatalytic degradation and mineralization of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. Moreover, the formulation of viable full-scale implementation strategies and reactor configurations which can use multifunctional nanostructures for the effective remediation of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals remains a major area of further research.

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Environmental PollutantsNanostructuresWater Pollutants, ChemicalWater PurificationAdsorptionAgrochemicalsAgrochemicalsEnvironmental PollutantsWater Pollutants, ChemicalAgrochemicalsDegradationNanostructuresPharmaceuticalsSonication

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