Abstract
Providing clean and affordable drinking water is one of the modern-times challenges. The world’s growing population causes water scarcity, and pollutants contaminate whatever water sources are left. Nanotechnology has provided innovative solutions for water purification. This chapter reviews nanotechnology-enabled water-treatment processes, showing how they transform our water supply and wastewater treatment. The following topics are discussed: different nanomaterials, properties, mechanisms, advantages compared to existing methods, limitations, research needs for commercialization, and toxicities of nanomaterials.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Water Purification |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 33-74 |
| Number of pages | 42 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128043004 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780128043714 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
Keywords
- antimicrobial nanoparticles
- disinfection
- membrane processes
- nanoadsorption
- nanometal and metal oxides
- nanotechnology
- photocatalysis
- water and wastewater treatment
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