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Properties and Applications of Zeolites and Related Porous Materials

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Porous Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 153

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College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Interests: environmental remediation; surface adsorption; porous materials; MOF materials; clay minerals
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Dear Colleagues,

At present, with the rapid economic growth and expansion of the urban population, a large amount of domestic sewage and industrial wastewater is discharged, and the phenomenon of water pollution is becoming increasingly serious. A large amount of human excrement and unused fertilizers from crops has led to an increase in the total amount of ammonia and nitrogen in water, while the discharge of sewage from mining, smelting, electrolysis, electroplating, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, paints and pigments has gradually aggravated the problem of increasing heavy metal content in water. How to effectively use new environmental protection materials in water treatment has become an important research topic in the environmental field today.

Zeolite is an aqueous aluminosilicate mineral with connected pores and a shelf-like structure. The special crystal chemical structure makes zeolite have excellent performance and environmental properties such as ion exchange, efficient selective adsorption, catalysis, acid resistance, heat resistance and radiation resistance. Zeolite has good application prospects in the pretreatment process of organic matter removal, ammonia nitrogen removal, heavy metal ion removal, fluorine and phosphorus removal, among others, in wastewater. Especially important, the adsorption and ion exchange properties of natural zeolite combined with the filtration, adsorption and biological metabolism functions of the filter can better remove NH3N, organic matter, suspended substrances and chromaticity in sewage.

Using zeolite and related porous materials as water treatment filter materials, such as carbon nanotubes, halloysite nanotubes, MOF, COF, and mesoporous materials, is expected to increase the research and development of economical and efficient new water treatment technologies and processes, which is of great practical significance for solving the increasingly severe problems of water environmental pollution and water shortage in the world.

Prof. Dr. Pohsiang Chang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • zeolite
  • water treatment
  • MOF
  • halloysite
  • carbon nanotube
  • mesoporous material

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