Showing papers in "Journal of Hazardous Materials in 2017"
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TL;DR: This review discusses recent research developments of VOC adsorption onto a variety of engineered carbonaceous adsorbents, including activated carbon, biochar, activated carbon fiber, carbon nanotube, graphene and its derivatives, carbon-silica composites, ordered mesoporous carbon, etc.
915 citations
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TL;DR: Results showed that endocrine disruption chemicals (EDCs) were better removed by membrane bioreactor, activated sludge and aeration processes among different biological processes.
826 citations
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TL;DR: This is the first review regarding biogeochemical behaviour of heavy metals in atmosphere-plant system and summarizes the mechanisms involved in foliar heavy metal uptake, transfer, compartmentation, toxicity and in plant detoxification.
654 citations
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TL;DR: The surface elemental distribution maps of the nZVI@HCl-BC after reaction with Cr(VI) showed that Fe, Cr and O elements were deposited on the surface of Hcl-BC evenly, indicating that the formed Cr(III)/Fe(III) could settle on thesurface of HCl- BC uniformly rather than coated only on the n ZVI surface.
452 citations
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TL;DR: This clinically focused comprehensive review on the hazards of phthalates would benefit the general population, academia, scientists, clinicians, environmentalists, and law or policy makers to decide upon whether usage ofphthalates to be continued swiftly without sufficient deceleration or regulated by law or to be phased out from earth forever.
413 citations
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TL;DR: New insight is provided into the design and fabrication of advanced adsorption materials for water pollutant removal by a hydrothermal method synthesizing hierarchical flower-like hollow microspheres.
382 citations
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TL;DR: Most of the NPs have both positive and negative effects on crops at physiological, morphological, biochemical and molecular levels, and the effects of NPs on crop plants vary greatly with plant species, growth stages, growth conditions, method, dose, and duration.
379 citations
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TL;DR: The adsorption capacity of nanofiber was unaltered after five recycling runs, which indicated the reusability of chitosan/PVA/zeolite nanofibrous membrane, which can be a useful material for water treatment at moderate concentration of heavy metals.
315 citations
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TL;DR: Fe3O4-Mn 3O4/reduced graphene oxide (RGO) hybrid catalyst was synthesized through polyol process and impregnation method and used as heterogeneous Fenton-like catalyst for degradation of sulfamethazine (SMT) in aqueous solution.
312 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the nanoporous carbons (NPC) derived from a one-step carbonization of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) were synthesized and used for ciprofloxacin (CIP) removal from water.
311 citations
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TL;DR: Three principal mechanisms may be responsible for P-induced Pb immobilization, including direct precipitation, ion-exchange (or substitution) effect and liming effect, and the adsorption of Pb are discussed.
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TL;DR: A review on the environmental applications of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which are inorganic-organic hybrid highly porous crystalline materials, prepared from metal ion/clusters and multidentate organic ligands, and the challenge and future perspectives in MOF-based AOPs are addressed.
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TL;DR: The results indicate that exfoliating bulk g-C3N4 to g-N4 nanosheets greatly enlarges the specific surface area and shortens the diffusion distance for photogenerated charges, which could not only promote the photocatalytic performance but also benefit the sufficient interaction with Bi2MoO6.
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TL;DR: A hydrometallurgical process was proposed to explore the possibility for the recovery of valuable metals from the cathode materials (LiCoO2) of spent LIBs using phosphoric acid as both leaching and precipitating agent under mild leaching conditions.
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) is an ideal reagent for removing heavy metals from wastewater and provides proof that nanomaterials can offer truly green and cost-effective solutions for wastewater treatment.
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TL;DR: This review focuses on environmental implications and applications of engineered magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles (MNPs) as a single phase or a component of a hybrid nanocomposite that exhibits superparamagnetism and high surface area.
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TL;DR: The mechanisms of photodegradation and photodisinfection are explained, and the most significant coverage is devoted to materials design strategies aimed at improving the performance of photocatalysts for air purification.
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TL;DR: The superior catalytic performance of Fe3O4-op-DES MNPs was attributed to the combination of multiple technologically important features, including the nanometer size, high Fe2+ content, large surface area, high density of surface active sites and stable crystal structure.
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TL;DR: Experiments showed that nZVI/BC had high As(V) removal capacity in a wide range of pH (3-8) andKinetic data revealed that equilibrium was reached within 1h and isotherm data showed that the Langmuir maximum adsorption capacity of the nZ VI/BC for As(v) at pH 4.1 was 124.5gkg-1.
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TL;DR: The toxicity and cellular stresses of ciprofloxacin and its co-metabolic removal in a freshwater microalga Chlamydomonas mexicana were evaluated and the total chlorophyll, carotenoid, MDA and SOD activity were significantly increased as a result of relatively high concentrations of CIP stress.
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TL;DR: From this review, readers will gain an understanding of π-complexation for adsorption and separation, especially with MOFs, to develop new insight for future research.
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TL;DR: The quenching tests and electron spin resonance (ESR) display that h+, O2-, SO4- and OH are responsible for the antibiotics decomposition and the heterogeneous photocatalyst could be easily recovered by an extra magnetic field and reused several times without any obvious deterioration in catalytic activity.
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TL;DR: A novel electrochemical sensor based on Cu metal nanoparticles on the multiwall carbon nanotubes-reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (Cu/MWCNT/RGO) for individual and simultaneous determination of nitrite and nitrate ions is fabricated.
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TL;DR: Mechanically ball-mill prepared clinoptilolite nanoparticles (NC) were used for increasing photocatalytic activity of NiO and ZnO as alone and binary systems and formed nanoparticles of the semiconductors onto the zeolite during calcination of Ni(II)-Zn(II-exchanged NC at different calcinations temperatures.
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TL;DR: This study proposes an integrated process to handle bulk spent lithium manganese (LiMn2O4) batteries to in situ recycle high value-added products without any additives to avoid disposal cost.
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TL;DR: The experimental results show that the anion-exchange pattern of 1-NO3 conforms to the so-called Hofmeister bias, which has been correlated to the hydrophobic nature of the MOF pores, and can be understood by considering the difference between the hydration energies of the exchanging anions.
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TL;DR: Evidence is provided that pyrethroids are not only commonly detected in the aquatic environment, but also can cause toxic effects to benthic invertebrates, and calls for better development of accurate sediment quality criteria and effective ecological risk assessment methods for this emerging class of insecticides.
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TL;DR: Sorbent-stability, parametric, kinetics, isotherm, thermodynamic and sorbent-regeneration studies were performed to comprehend the potential of MPSB as adsorbent to remove an emerging contaminant, sulfamethoxazole (SMX) from aqueous solution, and showed that M PSB was stable within solution pH 4-9.
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TL;DR: It is discovered that amorphous boron (A-boron) can be used as a metal-free catalyst for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation to produce free radicals for effective degradation of bisphenol S (BPS), which is a newly-occurring estrogenic endocrine-disruption chemical.
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TL;DR: The evolution of toxic CO and other volatile products from the EP decomposition was significantly suppressed after the introduction of FR@PZS, Therefore, the smoke toxicity associates with burning EP was reduced.