Engineered two-dimensional nanomaterials: an emerging paradigm for water purification and monitoring
Water scarcity has become an increasingly complex challenge with the growth of the global population, economic expansion, and climate change, highlighting the demand for advanced water treatment technologies that can provide clean water in a scalable, reliable, affordable, and sustainable manner. Re...
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| Published in | Materials horizons Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 758 - 82 |
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| Main Authors | , , , , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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England
Royal Society of Chemistry
01.03.2021
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| Summary: | Water scarcity has become an increasingly complex challenge with the growth of the global population, economic expansion, and climate change, highlighting the demand for advanced water treatment technologies that can provide clean water in a scalable, reliable, affordable, and sustainable manner. Recent advancements on 2D nanomaterials (2DM) open a new pathway for addressing the grand challenge of water treatment owing to their unique structures and superior properties. Emerging 2D nanostructures such as graphene, MoS
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, and black phosphorus have demonstrated an unprecedented surface-to-volume ratio, which promises ultralow material use, ultrafast processing time, and ultrahigh treatment efficiency for water cleaning/monitoring. In this review, we provide a state-of-the-art account on engineered 2D nanomaterials and their applications in emerging water technologies, involving separation, adsorption, photocatalysis, and pollutant detection. The fundamental design strategies of 2DM are discussed with emphasis on their physicochemical properties, underlying mechanism and targeted applications in different scenarios. This review concludes with a perspective on the pressing challenges and emerging opportunities in 2DM-enabled wastewater treatment and water-quality monitoring. This review can help to elaborate the structure-processing-property relationship of 2DM, and aims to guide the design of next-generation 2DM systems for the development of selective, multifunctional, programmable, and even intelligent water technologies. The global significance of clean water for future generations sheds new light and much inspiration in this rising field to enhance the efficiency and affordability of water treatment and secure a global water supply in a growing portion of the world.
This review aims to comprehensively summarize the significant developments in design strategies, processing approaches, and application-oriented techniques of 2D nanomaterials for water purification and monitoring. |
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| Bibliography: | Shijun Lei completed his PhD at Tianjin University, under the supervision of Dr Beidou Xi from the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science and Dr Guanyi Chen from Tianjin University in 2020. He served as a visiting PhD student in the group of Dr Zhengdong Cheng at Texas A&M University from 2017 to 2019. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Dr Yuan Hu at State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include carbon-based nanomaterials for oil-water separation, solar-powered water vapor generation, and solar distillation for seawater desalination/wastewater treatment. Ling Wang is a full Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Tianjin University. He received his PhD degree in Materials Science from the University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2013. Prior to joining Tianjin University, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University (USA), and Senior Research Fellow at the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering of Texas A&M University (USA). His research interests focus on the design, synthesis and properties of smart soft materials, bioinspired materials and functional nanomaterials, and their emerging applications in diverse fields ranging from soft robotics, adaptive camouflage, and additive manufacturing to energy and safety issues. Zhengdong Cheng is a Professor at the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his PhD Degree in Physics from Princeton University, followed by Postdoctoral Fellowships at Harvard University, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, and the Princeton Materials Institute. His research focuses on the self-organization of anisotropic particles, water treatment/monitoring, clean and sustainable energy systems, and the application of microfluidics in bio-encapsulation. Minxiang Zeng received his BS Degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2014. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2018. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include the self-assembly of two-dimensional materials, additive manufacturing of functional devices, and development of sustainable water technologies. Dali Huang is currently a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. His research interests include 2D colloidal nanoparticles in photonic crystals, liquid crystals, and advanced functional materials. Mingfeng Chen is a PhD student in Guangdong University of Technology and was a visiting student in Zhengdong Cheng's group at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the phase transition of 2D nanoplatelets, orientation control of liquid crystals, ferronematic structure of magnetic nanoplatelets, and 2D material-based functional hydrogels. ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Review-1 |
| ISSN: | 2051-6347 2051-6355 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d0mh01358g |