Application potential of carbon nanotubes in water treatment: A review.
Water treatment is the key to coping with the conflict between people's increasing demand for water and the world-wide water shortage. Owing to their unique and tunable structural, physical, and chemical properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have exhibited great potentials in water treatment. This review makes an attempt to provide an overview of potential solutions to various environmental challenges by using CNTs as adsorbents, catalysts or catalyst support, membranes, and electrodes. The merits of incorporating CNT to conventional water-treatment material are emphasized, and the remaining challenges are discussed.
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Xitong
X
Liu
Mengshu
M
Wang
Shujuan
S
Zhang
Bingcai
B
Pan
D000327:Adsorption; D001674:Bioelectric Energy Sources; D002384:Catalysis; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D014873:Water Pollutants / Q000737:chemistry; D018508:Water Purification / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D014873:Water Pollutants