Cytotoxic aquatic pollutants and their removal by nanocomposite-based sorbents

Varsha Srivastava; Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare; Pooyan Makvandi; Xuan-Qi Zheng; Sidra Iftekhar; Aimin Wu; Vinod V T Padil; Babak Mokhtari; Rajender S Varma; Franklin R Tay; Mika Sillanpaa

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127324

Cytotoxic aquatic pollutants and their removal by nanocomposite-based sorbents

Chemosphere. 2020 Nov:258:127324. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127324. Epub 2020 Jun 7.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U), Varasani 221005, India.
² School of Chemistry, Damghan University, Damghan, 36716-41167, Iran. Electronic address: e.nazarzadeh@du.ac.ir.
³ Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council, IPCB-CNR, Naples, Italy; Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz 6153753843, Iran; Department of Medical Nanotechnology, Faculty of Advanced, Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14496-14535, Iran.
⁴ Department of Orthopaedics, Bioprinting Research Group, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325027, China.
⁵ Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Taxila 47050, Pakistan.
⁶ Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, Studentská 1402/2, 46117 Liberec 1, Czech Republic.
⁷ Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz 6153753843, Iran.
⁸ Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University in Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
⁹ College of Graduate Studies, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.
¹⁰ Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Viet Nam; Faculty of Environment and Chemical Engineering, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Viet Nam; School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350 QLD, Australia; Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Mining, Metallurgy and Chemical Engineering, University of Johannesburg, P. O. Box 17011, Doornfontein 2028, South Africa. Electronic address: mikaesillanpaa@gmail.com.

PMID: 32544812
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127324

Abstract

Water is an extremely essential compound for human life and, hence, accessing drinking water is very important all over the world. Nowadays, due to the urbanization and industrialization, several noxious pollutants are discharged into water. Water pollution by various cytotoxic contaminants, e.g. heavy metal ions, drugs, pesticides, dyes, residues a drastic public health issue for human beings; hence, this topic has been receiving much attention for the speciﬁc approaches and technologies to remove hazardous contaminants from water and wastewater. In the current review, the cytotoxicity of different sorts of aquatic pollutants for mammalian is presented. In addition, we will overview the recent advances in various nanocomposite-based adsorbents and different approaches of pollutants removal from water/wastewater with several examples to provide a backdrop for future research.

Keywords: Approaches of pollutants removal; Cytotoxic pollutants; Nanocomposite-based sorbents; Water and wastewater treatment.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adsorption
Environmental Pollutants
Humans
Metals, Heavy / chemistry
Nanocomposites / chemistry*
Pesticides / analysis
Wastewater / chemistry
Water
Water Pollutants, Chemical / chemistry*
Water Purification / methods*

Substances

Environmental Pollutants
Metals, Heavy
Pesticides
Waste Water
Water Pollutants, Chemical
Water