Applications of Nanomaterial-Based Membranes in Pollution Control

Abstract

Human activities have affected the global environmental system, resulting in drastic problems such as pollutants control either in solid, liquid or gas forms. The authors provide a thorough review on this pollution control topic covering from traditional decontamination processes, traditional materials used in these processes, to current status of nanomaterials, especially nanomaterial-based membranes that are used. An effort on the state-or-art works on metal-organic frameworks based membranes for gas separation is emphasized also in this review.

KEY WORDS:

• pollution control
• decontamination
• nanomaterials
• nanocomposites
• membrane
• metal-organic frameworks

Acknowledgments

The author, Qiang Wei, is currently working as chief scientist in Santa Fe Science and Technology, Inc.