Environmental pollution from industrial processes has become a growing global concern. Nowadays each of us breathes air that contains high levels of pollutants, and, at the same time, water resources are often critically polluted by inorganic and organic compounds. Consequently, air and water pollution remain a critical environmental and public health issue worldwide.
Heavy metals, for example, represent one of the most dangerous and abundant sources of contamination: even if their presence in small amounts is essential for the development of animals and plants, at higher concentrations they are toxic and can cause several adverse effects to human health. Organic pollutants, as well, represent a broad class of contaminants, deriving from various industrial activities, and often having a long persistence time in the ecosphere. Once released in gaseous or liquid streams, such substances can undergo several chemical and/or physical transformations that further worsen their removal from the environment.
At present, the consolidated treatment technologies hardly meet the increasingly stringent quality requirements. Moreover, they can be energy or material intensive, or can still produce waste, even if not hazardous ones. That pushes the scientific community towards the development of novel materials and processes with higher efficiency and lower costs. In this frame, the possibility to produce functional materials for environmental remediation starting from industrial waste appears extremely interesting, together with the opportunity to recover the removed contaminants and reintroduce them in the supply chain, in line with the circular economy paradigm.
This Research Topic invites original research contributions and reviews dealing with novel and advanced materials that can be applied to address these concerns. This issue will include materials and remediation processes as well as details of applications.
This Research Topic will focus on the topics that are listed below but not limited to:
- Synthesis and characterization of novel materials for water and air remediation
- Novel environmental remediation processes
- Novel routes for the recovery and reuse of pollutants
- Life Cycle Assessment of functional materials for environmental remediation
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All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Environmental pollution from industrial processes has become a growing global concern. Nowadays each of us breathes air that contains high levels of pollutants, and, at the same time, water resources are often critically polluted by inorganic and organic compounds. Consequently, air and water pollution remain a critical environmental and public health issue worldwide.
Heavy metals, for example, represent one of the most dangerous and abundant sources of contamination: even if their presence in small amounts is essential for the development of animals and plants, at higher concentrations they are toxic and can cause several adverse effects to human health. Organic pollutants, as well, represent a broad class of contaminants, deriving from various industrial activities, and often having a long persistence time in the ecosphere. Once released in gaseous or liquid streams, such substances can undergo several chemical and/or physical transformations that further worsen their removal from the environment.
At present, the consolidated treatment technologies hardly meet the increasingly stringent quality requirements. Moreover, they can be energy or material intensive, or can still produce waste, even if not hazardous ones. That pushes the scientific community towards the development of novel materials and processes with higher efficiency and lower costs. In this frame, the possibility to produce functional materials for environmental remediation starting from industrial waste appears extremely interesting, together with the opportunity to recover the removed contaminants and reintroduce them in the supply chain, in line with the circular economy paradigm.
This Research Topic invites original research contributions and reviews dealing with novel and advanced materials that can be applied to address these concerns. This issue will include materials and remediation processes as well as details of applications.
This Research Topic will focus on the topics that are listed below but not limited to:
- Synthesis and characterization of novel materials for water and air remediation
- Novel environmental remediation processes
- Novel routes for the recovery and reuse of pollutants
- Life Cycle Assessment of functional materials for environmental remediation
Keywords:
TBC
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.