Dear Colleagues,

Water is vital. Sustainably closing the water loop via technological breakthroughs with corresponding social acceptance is a critical development toward building global sustainability and resilient societies. The need to augment freshwater with unconventional water resources has urged scientists to seek solutions from first-principles innovations. Nanomaterials and their intriguing physicochemical properties have emerged at the nanoscale and enabled a broad range of phenomena and applications. Recent advances in controlled fabrication and characterization of materials at the nanoscale allow for creative designs of functional materials with effective nanostructure and chemistry. Furthermore, they provide effective tools to unravel transport mechanisms of molecules across heterophasic interfaces, which is crucial for the development of next-generation solutions for water remediation at lower energetic and environmental costs. Encountered challenges, however, often involve high costs, complicated processes, and poor scalability, lifetime performance, and life-cycle assessment when translating these nanomaterials into macroscale structures for practical applications in realistically complex chemical environments. To address these, the interdisciplinary bridging of nanotechnology, material science, separation science, environmental science, engineering, advanced manufacturing, and social science toward the sustainable deployment of novel nanomaterials for water security is crucial.

In this Special Issue, we seek technical and review articles that essentially address diverse facets of the applications of nanomaterials in advancing sustainable water treatment, reuse, and resource recovery. These aspects may include, but are not limited to, the simulations, syntheses, characterization, structure–property relationships, transport phenomena, applications, technoeconomic analyses, biological reactivity, nanotoxicity, fate and transport, life-cycle assessment, environmental risks, and public perception of nanomaterials when they are exploited to address global water challenges.

Dr. Ngoc T. Bui
Guest Editor

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• decarbonization and sustainability
• water treatment and reuse
• water and brine management
• desalination and deionization
• treatment technologies for emerging contaminants
• advanced separations
• engineered nanomaterials
• nanocomposite membranes
• nanoscale channels
• nanoconfinement