Carbon Nanotubes: Environment Application and Properties
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Nanomaterials are a class of materials with nanoscale dimensions. They are embedded in metals, polymer matrix, or ceramic in one or more phases. Carbon nanomaterials include all previous classes of materials, provided those are composed of a structural component at the nanoscale. Carbon nanomaterials have been studied because of their physical and chemical properties and their applications, since they have shown great possibilities to be applied to processes and environmental applications, such as using electrodes, sensors, nanoprobes, electronic materials, field emitters, etc. They also show high capability of removing various inorganic and organic pollutants and radionuclides from wastewaters. Heavy metal ions were removed from aqueous solutions by being adsorbed on the surface of the oxidized carbon nanostructures. This research critically assesses the contributions of carbon nanomaterials to a broad range of environmental applications: sorbents, filtration, high-flux membranes, antimicrobial agents, environmental sensors, renewable energy technologies, agriculture, transport, and pollution prevention strategies.
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