Advanced polymeric membranes for environmental remediation: emerging roles of hydrochar and biochar composites

IF 3.9 3区材料科学 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Materials Science Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI:10.1007/s10853-025-11508-y

Mohammad Tahir Aminzai, Erdal Yabalak

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Polymeric membranes (PMs) have recently emerged as a versatile technology for a wide range of environmental applications, including water purification, wastewater treatment, desalination, air filtration, and gas separation. Both solids and liquid PMs have been employed extensively in environmental remediation. However, the bare PMs frequently have various limitations that restrict their effectiveness in environmental remediation. Therefore, to enhance their selectivity, stability, permeability, antifouling, and mechanical properties, PMs are generally modified with a variety of materials, including nanomaterials, biochar and hydrochars, zeolites, polymeric additives, and zwitterions. Incorporating hydrochar and biochar into PMs provides enhanced hydrophilicity, mechanical strength, thermal stability, adsorption capacities, and eco-friendliness. Hydrochar/biochar-based PMs have been extensively employed for sustainable and effective remediation of various pollutants from water, including heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, dyes, pesticides, and inorganic ions. This review delves deeply into the latest advancements in PMs, modified PMs, and hydrochar/biochar-based PMs for the sustainable removal of various pollutants from the environment. In addition, the article discusses all the challenges and limitations that come with modified or unmodified PMs, explores potential solutions, and offers an in-depth analysis of current research and prospects for the development of modern PMs.

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用于环境修复的高级聚合物膜：碳氢化合物和生物炭复合材料的新作用

聚合物膜（pm）最近成为一种广泛应用于环境的通用技术，包括水净化、废水处理、海水淡化、空气过滤和气体分离。固体和液体pmms在环境修复中得到了广泛的应用。然而，裸pm往往有各种限制，限制了其在环境修复中的有效性。因此，为了提高其选择性、稳定性、渗透性、防污性和力学性能，pm通常使用各种材料进行改性，包括纳米材料、生物炭和碳氢化合物、沸石、聚合物添加剂和两性离子。将碳氢化合物和生物炭加入到pm中可以增强亲水性、机械强度、热稳定性、吸附能力和生态友好性。氢炭/生物炭基pm已被广泛用于可持续和有效地修复水中的各种污染物，包括重金属、药物、染料、农药和无机离子。本文深入探讨了pmms、改性pmms以及基于碳氢/生物炭的pmms在可持续去除环境中各种污染物方面的最新进展。此外，本文还讨论了修改或未修改项目管理所带来的所有挑战和限制，探索了潜在的解决方案，并对当前的研究和现代项目管理的发展前景进行了深入的分析。图形抽象

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Journal of Materials Science 工程技术-材料科学：综合

CiteScore

7.90

自引率

4.40%

发文量

1297

审稿时长

2.4 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Materials Science publishes reviews, full-length papers, and short Communications recording original research results on, or techniques for studying the relationship between structure, properties, and uses of materials. The subjects are seen from international and interdisciplinary perspectives covering areas including metals, ceramics, glasses, polymers, electrical materials, composite materials, fibers, nanostructured materials, nanocomposites, and biological and biomedical materials. The Journal of Materials Science is now firmly established as the leading source of primary communication for scientists investigating the structure and properties of all engineering materials.