Biochar has a wide range of applications, including environmental management, such as preventing soil and water pollution, removing heavy metals from water sources, and reducing air pollution. However, there are several challenges associated with the...
Constructing antifouling surfaces is a crucial technique for optimizing the performance of devices such as water treatment membranes and medical devices in practical environments. These surfaces are achieved by modification with hydrophilic polymers....
Insights into key properties of biochar with a fast adsorption rate and high adsorption capacity are urgent to design biochar as an adsorbent in pollution emergency treatment. Machine learning (ML) incorporating classical theoretical adsorption model...
International journal of molecular sciences
Apr 27, 2024
This work aimed to describe the adsorption behavior of Congo red (CR) onto activated biochar material prepared from waste (). The carbon precursor was soaked with phosphoric acid, followed by pyrolysis to convert the precursor into activated biochar...
Gas sensors play a crucial role in various industries and applications. In recent years, there has been an increasing demand for gas sensors in society. However, the current method for screening gas-sensitive materials is time-, energy-, and cost-con...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Apr 16, 2024
Adsorption free energies of 32 small biomolecules (amino acids side chains, fragments of lipids, and sugar molecules) on 33 different nanomaterials, computed by the molecular dynamics - metadynamics methodology, have been analyzed using statistical m...
Journal of environmental science and health. Part A, Toxic/hazardous substances & environmental engineering
Apr 12, 2024
Heavy metal ions are considered to be the most prevalent and toxic water contaminants. The objective of thois work was to investigate the effectiveness of employing the adsorption technique in a laboratory-size reactor to remove copper (II) ions from...
In water treatment processes (WTPs), artificial intelligence (AI) based techniques, particularly machine learning (ML) models have been increasingly applied in decision-making activities, process control and optimization, and cost management. At leas...
This study aimed to develop surface complexation modeling-machine learning (SCM-ML) hybrid model for chromate and arsenate adsorption on goethite. The feasibility of two SCM-ML hybrid modeling approaches was investigated. Firstly, we attempted to uti...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Apr 5, 2024
Aqueous fluoride ( ) pollution is a global threat to potable water security. The present research envisions the development of novel adsorbents from indigenous Limonia acidissima L. (fruit pericarp) for effective aqueous defluoridation. The adsorben...