Publications by authors named "Zakarya Othman"

In recent years, tremendous interest has been generated in MXenes as a fast-growing and diversified family of two-dimensional (2D) materials with a wide range of potential uses. MXenes exhibit many unique structural and physicochemical properties that make them particularly attractive as adsorbents for removing heavy metals from aqueous media, including a large surface area, abundant surface terminations, electron-richness, and hydrophilic nature. In light of the adsorption capabilities of MXenes at the ever-increasing rate of expansion, this review investigates the recent computational predictions for the adsorption capabilities of MXenes and the effect of synthesis of different MXene on their remediation behavior toward heavy metals.

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Our environment desperately needs creative solutions to limit the effect of industrialization's fast rise and, consequently, to remediate vast amounts of harmful by-products and toxic exhausts [...

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Due to their broad applications in various industrial activities, and their well-known negative impacts on the aquatic environment, organic dyes have been continuously identified as serious threat to the quality of ecosystems. The photocatalytic degradation process in aqueous solutions has emerged as an efficient and reliable approach for the removal of organic dyes. MXenes, a new class of two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, possess unique chemical composition, surface functionalities, and physicochemical properties.

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