title: Use of iron oxide nanomaterials in wastewater treatment: a review.
abstract: Nowadays there is a continuously increasing worldwide concern for the development of wastewater treatment technologies. The utilization of iron oxide nanomaterials has received much attention due to their unique properties, such as extremely small size, high surface-area-to-volume ratio, surface modifiability, excellent magnetic properties and great biocompatibility. A range of environmental clean-up technologies have been proposed in wastewater treatment which applied iron oxide nanomaterials as nanosorbents and photocatalysts. Moreover, iron oxide based immobilization technology for enhanced removal efficiency tends to be an innovative research point. This review outlined the latest applications of iron oxide nanomaterials in wastewater treatment, and gaps which limited their large-scale field applications. The outlook for potential applications and further challenges, as well as the likely fate of nanomaterials discharged to the environment were discussed.
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China.
authors.forename: Piao
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Guang Ming
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Dan Lian
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Chong Ling
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Mei Hua
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Cui
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Geng Xin
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Zhi Feng
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D002384:Catalysis; D005290:Ferric Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D008027:Light; D060328:Magnetic Phenomena; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000379:methods*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D005290:Ferric Compounds; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; C000499:ferric oxide