Recent advances in the removal of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) using multifunctional materials:a review.

Environ Pollut

Key Laboratory of Environmental Nanotechnology and Health Effects, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco- Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2871, Beijing, 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.

Published: October 2020

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  • Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a growing concern due to their harmful effects on wildlife and humans, leading to increased focus on their removal.
  • Various multifunctional materials are explored as promising alternatives to traditional methods for degrading POPs, including thermal degradation, electrochemical remediation, and photocatalytic degradation.
  • The review highlights the factors that influence catalytic performance in POPs remediation and discusses future challenges and opportunities for developing new materials to enhance degradation processes.

Article Abstract

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have gained heightened attentions in recent years owing to their persistent property and hazard influence on wild life and human beings. Removal of POPs using varieties of multifunctional materials have shown a promising prospect compared with conventional treatments. Herein, three main categories, including thermal degradation, electrochemical remediation, as well as photocatalytic degradation with the use of diverse catalytic materials, especially the recently developed prominent ones were comprehensively reviewed. Kinetic analysis and underlying mechanism for various POPs degradation processes were addressed in detail. The review also systematically documented how catalytic performance was dramatically affected by the nature of the material itself, the structure of target pollutants, reaction conditions and treatment techniques. Moreover, the future challenges and prospects of POPs degradation by means of multiple multifunctional materials were outlined accordingly. Knowing this is of immense significance to enhance our understanding of POPs remediation procedures and promote the development of novel multifunctional materials.

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