Sustainable and low-carbon removal of emerging contaminants by selective adsorption and phase-transferred electrocatalytic regeneration.

Xueying Ren, Xiuwu Zhang, Chaohui Zhang, Ge Song, Guanyu Liu, Yufei Liu, Yandong Chai, Mingyi Sun, Minghua Zhou

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Xueying RenKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Xiuwu ZhangKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Chaohui ZhangKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Ge SongKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Guanyu LiuKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Yufei LiuKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Yandong ChaiKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Mingyi SunKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Minghua ZhouKey Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. zhoumh@nankai.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-3505

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) No.52170085National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) U23B20165Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin) 24JCYBJC01890

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Abstract

The sustainable management of trace emerging contaminants (ECs) is essential for safeguarding water resources and achieving global carbon-neutrality targets. To address the bottleneck of high energy-consumption and carbon emission caused by the non-selective oxidation of complex organics in conventional advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), we report a sustainable and low-carbon process for ECs removal through a two-step strategy combining selective adsorption and phase-transferred electrocatalytic regeneration using a defect-engineered Fe-N-doped hierarchical porous carbon. Carboxylate-assisted defect modulation constructed hierarchical porosity and enriched pyridinic-N-Fe sites, which not only selectively captured high ionization potentials (IP) contaminants through charge-transfer-driven interactions, but also activated the cathodically generated H

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PMID42860400

DOI10.1038/s41467-026-77385-4

PMCPMC13654975

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