Millimeter-Sized Nanocomposites for Advanced Water Treatment: Preparation, Synergistic Effects and Applications

Wanyi Fu, Yuhang Li, Zhichao Yang, Yanyang Zhang, Xiaolin Zhang, Ziyao Liu, Bingcai Pan

Prog Chem ›› 2023, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (10) : 1415-1437.

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Prog Chem ›› 2023, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (10) : 1415-1437. DOI: 10.7536/PC230510
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Millimeter-Sized Nanocomposites for Advanced Water Treatment: Preparation, Synergistic Effects and Applications

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Nanomaterial features a high surface area-to-volume ratio and strong surface effects, offering excellent performance in water treatment and broad application prospects. Incorporating nanoparticles into millimeter-scale hosts to prepare millimeter-sized nanocomposite materials can couple the high reactivity of nanoparticles with the easy operability of millimeter-scale hosts. This is an important technical approach to overcome the engineering application bottlenecks of nanomaterials, such as their tendency to agglomerate, low stability, potential environmental risks, and difficult separation. This review summarizes the preparation methods, structural characteristics, and adsorptive and catalytic oxidative removal of pollutants from aqueous systems by millimeter-sized nanocomposites. It elaborates on the confinement effects from the perspectives of confined growth of nanoparticles, confined adsorption properties, and confined catalytic oxidation properties, as well as the synergistic purification effect between the hosts and nanoparticles. Finally, the scientific issues and practical challenges that urgently need to be addressed in the development of millimeter-sized nanocomposites are discussed. We believe this review will provide theoretical guidance and technical references for promoting the practical applications of nanomaterials.

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Common hosts and preparation methods of millimeter-sized nanocomposites

2.1 Polymeric hosts

2.2 Carbon-based hosts

2.3 Natural mineral based hosts

2.4 Ceramic-based hosts

3 Confinement effects and synergistic purification effects of millimeter-nanometer structure

3.1 Confined growth of nanoparticles in millimeter-sized hosts

3.2 Confined adsorption and regeneration of nanoparticles inside millimeter-sized hosts

3.3 Confined catalytic oxidation of nanoparticles inside millimeter-sized hosts

4 Practical applications of millimeter-sized nanocomposites in water treatment

4.1 Applications in adsorption

4.2 Applications in catalytic degradation

5 Conclusions and perspectives

5.1 Research gaps in scientific issues regarding nanoconfinement effects

5.2 Challenges to be addressed for practical applications of nanocomposite materials

Key words

millimeter-sized nanocomposite / confinement effects / water decontamination / adsorption / catalytic oxidation

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Wanyi Fu , Yuhang Li , Zhichao Yang , et al . Millimeter-Sized Nanocomposites for Advanced Water Treatment: Preparation, Synergistic Effects and Applications[J]. Progress in Chemistry. 2023, 35(10): 1415-1437 https://doi.org/10.7536/PC230510

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National Key R&D Program(2022YFA1205602)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(21925602)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(22236003)
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