Potential environmental applications of MXenes: A critical review.

Abstract:

:Various environmental pollutants (e.g., air, water and solid pollutants) are discharged into environments with the rapid development of industrializations, which is presently at the forefront of global attention. The high efficient removal of these environmental pollutants is of important concern due to their potential threat to human health and eco-diversity. Advanced nanomaterials may play an important role in the elimination of pollutants from environmental media. MXenes as the new intriguing class of graphene-like 2D transition metal carbides and/or carbonitrides have been widely used in energy storage, environmental remediation benefitting from exceptional structural properties such as highly active sites, high chemical stability, hydrophilicity, large interlayer spacing, huge specific surface area, superior sorption-reduction capacity. However, the comprehensive investigation concerning the removal of various environmental pollutants on MXenes is yet not available up to date. In this review, we summarized the synthesis and properties of MXenes to demonstrate the key roles in ameliorating their adsorption performance; then the recent advances and achievements in environmental application of MXenes on the removal of gases, organics, heavy metals and radionuclides were comprehensively reviewed in details; Finally, the formidable challenges and further perspectives regarding utilizing MXene in environmental remediation were proposed. Hopefully, this review can provide the useful information for environmental scientists and material engineers on designing versatile MXenes in actual environmental applications.

journal_name

Chemosphere

journal_title

Chemosphere

authors

Sun Y,Li Y

doi

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.129578

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Has Abstract

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2021-01-08 00:00:00

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129578

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0045-6535

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1879-1298

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S0045-6535(21)00048-5

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271

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