Recent Advancement in Nanotechnology for the Treatment of Pharmaceutical Wastewater: Sources, Toxicity, and Remediation Technology

• Published in: Current pollution reports Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 110 - 142
• Main Authors: Kumar, Sandeep, Yadav, Sangita, Kataria, Navish, Chauhan, Amit Kumar, Joshi, Seema, Gupta, Renuka, Kumar, Parmod, Chong, Jun Wei Roy, Khoo, Kuan Shiong, Show, Pau Loke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analgesics; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Caffeine; Catalysts; Contamination; Drinking behavior; Drinking water; Drugs; Earth and Environmental Science; Effluents; Electrochemistry; Emerging markets; Environment; Environmental aspects; Environmental hazards; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; fabrics; Fresh water; freshwater; genes; Hormones; humans; Industrial Pollution Prevention; L Nghiem and W Zhang; Medical wastes; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; nanocatalysts; Nanofiltration; Nanomaterials; nanosheets; Nanotechnology; Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; Optical properties; Organic chemicals; Personal grooming; Pesticides; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmaceutical industry wastes; Pharmaceuticals; Pollutants; Pollution; pulp; R&D; Remediation; Research & development; Research & development expenditures; Section Editors; Sludge; surface area; Surface water; Topical Collection on Water and Sediment Pollution; Toxicity; Waste Water Technology; wastewater; Wastewater pollution; Wastewater treatment; Water and Sediment Pollution (G Toor; Water bodies; Water discharge; Water Management; Water pollution; Water Pollution Control; Water purification; Water treatment; Europe; Pharmaceutical waste; Pollution; Remediation; Nano-catalyst; Nanotechnology

The textile, paper and pulp, distillery, and pharmaceutical industries are only a few of the many sectors that contribute significantly to the contamination of water bodies and their unsuitability for human use. Pharmaceuticals, which are credited with saving millions of lives in recent decades, hav...