Water treatment is imperative for the recycling, reclamation, and reuse of wastewater, therefore, the global water challenge should be taken and addressed at the national level, as far as governments are concerned. In particular, the treatment of water contaminants is necessary to deliver fit-for-purpose water. Although activated carbon and various polymeric materials have been widely used as efficient adsorbents and filtration membranes, respectively, many water treatment challenges remain, such as scaling and fouling, selective separation, energy-efficient desalination, and the effective removal of micropollutants at extremely low concentrations (e.g., parts per trillion), among many others. Therefore, many opportunities exist for exploring and understanding emerging nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for water treatment and water interfaces.
Volume 2 is a collection of state-of-the-art nanotechnology-based water treatment research. Key water remediation technologies covered include adsorption, membrane filtration (e.g., microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis), capacitive deionization, and catalytic degradation, along with methods to minimize scaling and fouling. Materials and interfaces discussed include carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene oxide quantum dots, carbon nitrides, metal-organic frameworks, polymers, metals, metal oxides, composite sponges, and hydrogels. The contaminants addressed include heavy metals, radioactive metals, pathogens, organic pollutants (e.g., dyes, antibiotics, aromatic compounds, and natural organic matter), and other micropollutants in water. We hope this book volume will become a valuable reference not only for veteran researchers in the field of water treatment but also for undergraduate students and graduate students who are entering this exciting field.
Contents:
- Enhancement of Filtration and Adsorption Processes for Water Treatment Using Graphene-Based Nanomaterials (Ali Ansari and Debora F Rodrigues)
- Engineered Graphene Oxide as Advanced Separation Material for Water Treatment (Delai Zhong, Lihong Gan and Yi Jiang)
- Graphitic Carbon Nanomaterial-Based Membranes for Water Desalination (Dong Han Seo, Mitchell Barclay, Myoung Jun Park, Chen Wang, Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov and Ho Kyong Shon)
- Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology for Waterborne Pathogen Inactivation (Cecilia Yu, Jianfeng Zhou, and Xing Xie)
- Development of Nanostructured Adsorption Materials for Removing Heavy-Metal Ions from Aqueous Systems (Dan Zhang and Chuanyi Wang)
- Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Capacitive Deionization Systems (Zhi Yi Leong and Hui Ying Yang)
- Graphene Oxide and Nanocomposite Electrodes for Capacitive Deionization (Linda Zou)
- Palladium-Based Nanostructured Catalysts for Treatment of Recalcitrant and Problematic Waterborne Pollutants (Xiaopeng Min and Yin Wang)
- Catalytically Reactive Membrane Filtration for Water Treatment (Wen Zhang, Shan Xue, Qingquan Ma, Fangzhou Liu, Weihua Qing, Shaobin Sun and Hong Yao)
- Surface Mimetics of Water Treatment Membranes by Thin-Films and Self-Assembled Monolayers for Exploring Scaling and Antifouling Mechanisms (Swati Sundararajan, Karthik Rathinam and Roni Kasher)
- The Roles of Nanostructures in Mitigating Pore Wetting and Mineral Scaling in Membrane Distillation (Tiezheng Tong)
Readership: Researchers and advanced undergraduate students and graduate students specialising in the field of water science and water treatment. And water utilities and the general public who are interested in water treatment.
Junhong Chen is currently the Crown Family Professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He is also Lead Water Strategist, Senior Scientist and Science Leader for Argonne in Chicago at Argonne National Laboratory. Prior to coming to Chicago, Dr Chen served as a Program Director for the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and as a Co-Chair of the NSF-wide ERC Working Group to design the ERC Planning Grants program and the Gen-4 ERC program. As a representative of NSF's Engineering Directorate, Dr Chen also served on the NSF-wide Working Groups for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the NSF Research Traineeship programs. Prior to joining NSF in May 2017, he was a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and an Excellence in Engineering Faculty Fellow in Nanotechnology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), and he was a Regent Scholar of the University of Wisconsin System. He also served as Director of UWM's NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center on Water Equipment & Policy for six years. He founded NanoAffix Science, LLC to commercialize real-time water sensors based on two-dimensional nanomaterials.
Dr Chen received his PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Minnesota in 2002, and he was a postdoctoral scholar in chemical engineering at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2003. His current research focuses on nanomaterial innovation for energy and environmental sustainability, including real-time sensors for detection of water contaminants. Dr Chen has published more than 260 journal papers and has been listed as a highly cited researcher (top 1%) in the materials science or cross-field category by Clarivate Analytics over the last four years. Dr Chen's research has led to nine patents, five pending patents, and thirteen licensing agreements. He is a pioneer in technology commercialization through exemplary industrial partnerships and his university start-up company. Dr Chen is an elected fellow of both the National Academy of Inventors and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a recipient of the International Association of Advanced Materials medal. His start-up company, NanoAffix, is a recipient of the 2016 Wisconsin Innovation Award.
Matthew Tirrell is the Dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Robert A Millikan Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Before becoming dean in 2011, Dr Tirrell served as the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and as Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prior to that, he was Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara for 10 years.
Dr Tirrell began his academic career at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and later became head of the department. He also served as Deputy Laboratory Director for Science at Argonne National Laboratory, where he was responsible for integrating the laboratory's research and development efforts and science and technology capabilities.
Dr Tirrell is a pioneering researcher in the fields of biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology, specializing in the manipulation and measurement of the surface properties of polymers, which are materials that consist of long, flexible chain molecules. His work combines microscopic measurements of intermolecular forces with the creation of new structures. His work has provided new insight into the properties of polymers, especially surface phenomena such as adhesion, friction, and biocompatibility, and new materials based on the self-assembly of synthetic and bioinspired materials. Dr Tirrell has received many honors, including the Polymer Physics Prize by the American Physical Society and election to the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
