TY - CHAP
T1 - Recent Advances in Carbon–Semiconductor Nanocomposites for Water Remediation
AU - Mondal, Kunal
AU - Gupta, Ankur
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The demand of clean decontaminated water supply is increasing with the increase in the population of the world. As a result, the global need for more economic and efficient technologies for water remediation is also rising. The entry of nanotechnology into the wastewater treatment engineering exemplified a noteworthy advancement, and nanoparticles (NPs) have been exhaustively studied for possible remediation applications. However, the wastewater treatment with dispersed NP suspensions is still inadequate and to some extent antagonistic on the grounds of health and environmental safety, even as NP reaction mechanisms, ecotoxicity, and their transport properties are quiet under exploration. Theoretically, the development of porous nanocomposites containing nanoparticles to overcome these concerns offers the next logical step for developing functional nanomaterials and nanocomposites that are better investigated in the wastewater industry. This purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the range of carbon nanocomposites containing NP of semiconductor photocatalysts being technologically advanced, at the same time highlighting their limitations in practical uses. The review also briefly covers what further improvements are needed to optimize existing nanocomposite-mediated water remediation processes to successively accomplish viable maturity.
AB - The demand of clean decontaminated water supply is increasing with the increase in the population of the world. As a result, the global need for more economic and efficient technologies for water remediation is also rising. The entry of nanotechnology into the wastewater treatment engineering exemplified a noteworthy advancement, and nanoparticles (NPs) have been exhaustively studied for possible remediation applications. However, the wastewater treatment with dispersed NP suspensions is still inadequate and to some extent antagonistic on the grounds of health and environmental safety, even as NP reaction mechanisms, ecotoxicity, and their transport properties are quiet under exploration. Theoretically, the development of porous nanocomposites containing nanoparticles to overcome these concerns offers the next logical step for developing functional nanomaterials and nanocomposites that are better investigated in the wastewater industry. This purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the range of carbon nanocomposites containing NP of semiconductor photocatalysts being technologically advanced, at the same time highlighting their limitations in practical uses. The review also briefly covers what further improvements are needed to optimize existing nanocomposite-mediated water remediation processes to successively accomplish viable maturity.
KW - Carbon nanocomposites
KW - Carbon nanofiber/metal-oxide photocatalyst
KW - Carbon/metal nanocomposites
KW - Carbon/metal-oxide nanocomposites
KW - Carbon/photocatalyst composites
KW - Photocatalyst recycling
KW - UV and visible light photocatalysis
KW - Wastewater remediation
KW - Water disinfection
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-10-7551-3_4
DO - 10.1007/978-981-10-7551-3_4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85066994645
T3 - Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
SP - 45
EP - 74
BT - Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
PB - Springer Nature
ER -