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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 424, Issue -, Pages 1-10Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.023
Keywords
Iron oxide nanomaterials; Wastewater treatment; Nanosorbents; Photocatalysts; Immobilization carriers
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Funding
- Programs for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT0719]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50808073, 50978088, 51039001]
- Hunan Key Scientific Research Project [2009FJ1010]
- Environmental Protection Technology Research Program of Hunan [2007185]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [10JJ7005]
- New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-08-0181]
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Nowadays there is a continuously increasing worldwide concern for the development of wastewater treatment technologies. The utilization of iron oxide nanomaterials has received much attention due to their unique properties, such as extremely small size, high surface-area-to-volume ratio, surface modifiability, excellent magnetic properties and great biocompatibility. A range of environmental clean-up technologies have been proposed in wastewater treatment which applied iron oxide nanomaterials as nanosorbents and photocatalysts. Moreover, iron oxide based immobilization technology for enhanced removal efficiency tends to be an innovative research point. This review outlined the latest applications of iron oxide nanomaterials in wastewater treatment, and gaps which limited their large-scale field applications. The outlook for potential applications and further challenges, as well as the likely fate of nanomaterials discharged to the environment were discussed. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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