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A comprehensive review on recent developments in bentonite-based materials used as adsorbents for wastewater treatment

Sadanand Pandey
- 01 Sep 2017 - 
- Vol. 241, pp 1091-1113
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In this paper, a review demonstrates the late advancements of nanotechnology in the synthesis of nanoadsorbents containing bentonite and its composites and their ability to absorb variety of inorganic contaminants available in the water.
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This article is published in Journal of Molecular Liquids.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 239 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water treatment.

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Water purification by using Adsorbents: A Review

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A Review of the Synthesis and Applications of Polymer–Nanoclay Composites

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Removal of heavy metals and dyes by clay-based adsorbents: From natural clays to 1D and 2D nano-composites

TL;DR: In this paper, the removal of heavy metals and dyes by clay-based adsorbents, from natural clays to 1D clay nanotubes and 2D Clay nanosheets, has been summarized.
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Fast and highly efficient catalytic degradation of dyes using κ-carrageenan stabilized silver nanoparticles nanocatalyst.

TL;DR: The synthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) nanocatalyst exhibited high catalytic degradation and mineralization of industrially important organic dyes such as Rhodamine B, and methylene blue, with a degradation efficiency of ∼100 % in a very short interval.
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Fast and highly efficient removal of dye from aqueous solution using natural locust bean gum based hydrogels as adsorbent.

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Turning to Nanotechnology for Water Pollution Control: Applications of Nanocomposites

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the late advancements in the preparation of nano adsorbents incorporating polymer-silica hybrid materials by sol-gel technique and depict the versatile nature of polymer and silicone hybrid materials and their ability to absorb variety of heavy metal ions which are present in the wastewater.
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Simultaneous removal of Cr(VI) and Amido black 10B (AB10B) from aqueous solutions using quaternized chitosan coated bentonite

TL;DR: Thermodynamic study depicted that the adsorption of Cr(VI) and AB10B onto the modified bentonite was both spontaneous and exothermic while the one forAB10B was endoth- ermic in nature.
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Removal of nitrate ion from aqueous solution by modified ethiopian bentonite clay

TL;DR: In this paper, the ability of Ethiopian acid activated bentonite clay adsorbent media for nitrate ion removal from aqueous solutions has been investigated, where the clay was taken from Gewane area, Afar region, Northeastern Ethiopia, activated with 2M HCl and characterized by FT-IR Spectroscopy.
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Sol-gel synthesis and characterization of adsorbent and photoluminescent nanocomposites of starch and silica

TL;DR: In this article, mesoporous and photoluminescent silica nanocomposites of soluble starch have been synthesized and characterized using sol-gel method, and different ratios of H2O, TEOS and EtOH were used at fixed template (soluble starch) and catalyst (NH4OH) concentrations to obtain materials of different performances in terms of heavy metal binding from a solution which has been monitored using Cd(II) as representative divalent heavy metal ion.
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Zinc adsorption in bentonite clay: influence of pH and initial concentration - doi: 10.4025/actascitechnol.v35i2.13364

TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption capacity of zinc by Bofe bentonite clay was evaluated in a finite bath system and experiments were performed by varying pH, the amount of adsorbent and initial concentration of the metal.
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