TY - JOUR
T1 - A review exploring the adsorptive removal of organic micropollutants on tailored hierarchical carbon nanotubes
AU - Alayan, Haiyam Mohammed
AU - Aljumaily, Mustafa Mohammed
AU - Alsaadi, Mohammed Abdulhakim
AU - Mjalli, Farouq Sabri
AU - Hashim, Mohd Ali
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to express their thanks to the University of Technology-Iraq and the University of Malaya for funding this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Compared to other existing carbon nanomaterials (CNMs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are recognized for their significant properties. Despite their strong adsorption affinity, the difficulty of their dispersion and separation leads to limit their application in practical water treatment. Moreover, wastewater contamination by noxious organics, such as bisphenol A (BPA) and methylene blue (MB) dye compounds has become a world-wide environmental concern because they may be harmful to humans’ health and the ecosystem. Therefore, this article aims to explore the potential of economically directly growing CNTs on porous supports, such as the powder activated carbon (AC) to develop a multiscale hybridized material and to investigate their expected potential as viable adsorbents for removing persistent organic contaminants.
AB - Compared to other existing carbon nanomaterials (CNMs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are recognized for their significant properties. Despite their strong adsorption affinity, the difficulty of their dispersion and separation leads to limit their application in practical water treatment. Moreover, wastewater contamination by noxious organics, such as bisphenol A (BPA) and methylene blue (MB) dye compounds has become a world-wide environmental concern because they may be harmful to humans’ health and the ecosystem. Therefore, this article aims to explore the potential of economically directly growing CNTs on porous supports, such as the powder activated carbon (AC) to develop a multiscale hybridized material and to investigate their expected potential as viable adsorbents for removing persistent organic contaminants.
KW - Water treatment
KW - adsorption
KW - bisphenol A
KW - carbon nanotubes synthesis
KW - methylene blue
KW - powder activated carbon
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U2 - 10.1080/02772248.2021.1932888
DO - 10.1080/02772248.2021.1932888
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85107537879
SN - 0277-2248
VL - 103
SP - 295
EP - 338
JO - Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry
JF - Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry
IS - 4
ER -