Rambling the headway in redemption of carbon-based nanomaterials for wastewater treatment

ABSTRACT

Problem of research

Rapid industrialization and technological advancement have increased the release of toxic effluents into the water thus decreasing clean water sources day by day.

Aim of study

Engineered materials and membrane filtration techniques have emerged as a reliable solution for wastewater treatment.

Remarkable methodology

Carbon-based nanomaterials are playing a major role due to their effective adsorbing capacity led by high surface area and porosity. Carbon nanotubes, Graphene and Graphene oxide and natural carbon-based materials were reviewed for the treatment of wastewater.

Remarkable results

The focused nanomaterials proved the future materials for wastewater treatment in terms of sustainability, availability, high surface area, catalytic activity, environment-friendly, ease of modification, non-toxicity, exceptional structural feature, adsorption selectivity with high strength and many more proves its novelty in the domain of wastewater treatment.

Significance of study

This piece of work is a step towards the recent development in greener and sustainable carbon-based nanomaterials with the prospects of technologies that gives enhanced efficiency thus enabling large-scale production for wastewater treatment.

KEYWORDS:

• Waste-water treatment
• carbon-based nanomaterials
• carbon nanotubes
• graphene
• graphene oxide
• contaminated water

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Authors contributions

Both the authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation and idea of the article was performed by Mamta Latwal. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Shefali Arora and further versions were critically revised by Mamta Latwal. Literature search and data analysis were performed by both the authors. Both authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript and approved the final one.

Availability of data and materials

All the data and materials used in the present review either taken the permission or produced the sources with references.

Consent to participate

This review contains two authors one is first author (Dr. Mamta Latwal) and another is corresponding author (Dr. Shefali Arora). Both have given their consent for participation.

Consent to publish

Both authors give their consent to publish.

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Funding

The authors declare that no funds, grants, or other support were received during the preparation of this manuscript.