Nanoclays in Water and Wastewater Treatment: Technical, Economic and Scale-up Aspects

Meththika Vithanage · Dimitrios A Giannakoudakis · Jagpreet Singh

Oct 2025 · Elsevier

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Nanotechnology applications for wastewater research have a significant impact in maintaining the long-term quality, availability, and viability of water supplies. Nanoclays in Water and Wastewater Treatment: Technical, Economic and Scale-up Aspects presents a detailed review of cutting-edge research on the use of these materials in water applications including treatment, remediation, sensing, and pollution prevention. Various nanoparticles and nanomaterials that could be used in water remediation (zeolites, carbon nanotubes, self-assembled monolayer on mesoporous supports, biopolymers, single-enzyme nanoparticles, zero-valent iron nanoparticles, bimetallic iron nanoparticles, and nanoscale semiconductor photocatalysts) are discussed. The book also covers waterborne infectious diseases as well as waterborne pathogens, microbes, and toxicity. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic researchers and professional engineers who are working on the development of supported catalysts for wastewater treatment applications. - Presents the latest research on the use of nanoclays in water and wastewater treatment - Covers nanoclay synthesis, properties, and processing techniques for wastewater treatment - Explains various uses of nanoclays for the removal of emerging pollutants such as hazardous dyes, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, per and poly fluorinated alkyl substances, and potentially toxic elements from water and wastewater, including adsorption, advanced oxidation process, and photocatalysis - Assesses the major challenges for using nanoclays for scaled-up water and wastewater treatment - Contains extensive case studies

About the author

Dr Meththika Vithanage is a Professor in Natural Resources at University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Her research approach builds on enabling measurements of concentrations and reaction rates in environmental samples for key/emerging pollutants in the environment in order to assess their fate and transport to discover solutions to remediate those using different geo/bio/nano materials. Dr Vithanage’s contribution to science has been recognized by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) presenting the Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi award in 2020. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka, and Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon, and was selected as one of the Early Career Women Scientists by the Organization for Women Scientists in Developing Countries, Italy. Her outstanding performance in research publications was recognized by the Presidential Awards, Sri Lanka, for consecutive 8 years from 2011

Dr. Dimitrios Giannakoudakis graduated as chemist from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in Greece, where he obtained also two M.Sc. degrees (in Physical-chemistry & Electrochemistry and in New Educational Technologies). He received his PhD degree on “Nanotechnology and Materials Chemistry from the City University of New York (CUNY) with full scholarship, in 02/2017. Then, he continued as postdoctoral-fellow and adjunct tutor at the City College of New York, AUTh, and the Institute of Physical Chemistry (IChF) of Polish Academy of Sciences. Afterwards, he served at IChF as adj. Assistant Professor and tutor of “Modern nano-Topics in Physical Chemistry. Currently, he is Research Associate and tutor at AUTh. He has co-authored more than 105 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals (avg. Impact Factor as 1st author above 11), with the articles to be cited more than 3000 times, one monograph by Springer, three edited books by Elsevier, more than 20 book chapters, and 3 invention patents. For more details: www.DaGchem.com

Jagpreet Singh is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Chandigarh University, Mohali, India. His research areas focus on green/sustainable and chemical synthesis of Nanomaterials (nanoparticles, nanowires, nanorods, carbon dots, graphene, nanocomposites) and their environmental remediation’s applications in (Advanced oxidation processes, heavy metal ion sensing, catalysis, photocatalysis seed germination, antimicrobial activity). He is also an editorial member and reviewer for several international peer reviewed journals from international publishers.

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