Novel Materials in Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

Traditional drinking water and wastewater technologies have been shown to present several constraints facing water treatment. Novel systems should be developed to guarantee an efficient energetic consumption, together with safe discharge, reuse, and human consumption. Increasingly, emerging contaminants are being detected in our waters as a consequence of human activities, such as microplastics, antibiotics which are also linked to antibiotic resistance bacteria and genes, etc. The current Water Framework Directive has strict regulations on a wide range of emerging contaminants, and additional treatments lead to a rise in the demand for energy and cost of water treatment.

Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have shown great potential in degrading pollutants and inactivating bacteria in water and wastewater treatment. However, as a large number of contaminants of emerging concern have arisen, efficient AOP-based processes and novel materials have to evolve to give rise to solutions to overcome these new water challenges.

This Special Issue is aimed at gathering high-quality and novel research papers based on the evaluation of advanced materials in AOPs for a sustainable water and wastewater treatment. It covers various aspects of progress in material synthesis, doped and hybrid materials, etc. This Special Issue will focus on:

• Photomaterials: Preparation, characterization, and applications in the removal of pollutants and bacteria;
• New Materials used in advanced oxidation processes with drinking water and wastewater treatment applications to improve the performance of conventional technologies;
• Novel materials to overcome the current challenges in the water industry, such as the removal of ECs, ARGs, ARBs, and microplastics;
• Sustainable processes linked to novel materials for water and wastewater treatment.

Dr. Cristina Pablos
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• AOPs
• emerging contaminants
• disinfection
• water
• degradation
• photomaterials
• sustainability