Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview

As one of the potential bionanomaterials, nanocellulose has appeared as a favorable candidate for photoremediation of the environment because of its abundance in nature, inexpensive, eco-friendly, decomposable, high surface area, and outstanding mechanical properties. The current review carefully su...

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Main Authors: Hitam, C. N. C., A. Jalil, A.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111964
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spelling my.utm.1037532023-11-23T08:56:33Z http://eprints.utm.my/103753/ Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview Hitam, C. N. C. A. Jalil, A. TP Chemical technology As one of the potential bionanomaterials, nanocellulose has appeared as a favorable candidate for photoremediation of the environment because of its abundance in nature, inexpensive, eco-friendly, decomposable, high surface area, and outstanding mechanical properties. The current review carefully summarized the diverse type of nanocellulose, their preparation approaches, and several previous works on the use of nanocellulose for photoremediation. These include the role of nanocellulose for the increased surface active site of the hybrid photocatalysts by providing a large surface area for enhanced adsorption of photons and pollutant molecules, as a dispersing agent to increase distribution of metal/non-metal dopants photocatalysts, as well as for controlled size and morphology of the dopants photocatalysts. Furthermore, the recommendations for upcoming research provided in this review are anticipated to ignite an idea for the development of other nanocellulose-based photocatalysts. Other than delivering beneficial information on the present growth of the nanocellulose biomaterials photocatalysts, this review is expected will attract more interest to the utilization of nanocellulose photocatalyst and distribute additional knowledge in this exciting area of environmental photoremediation. This could be attained by considering that a review on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation has not been described elsewhere, notwithstanding intensive research works have been dedicated to this topic. Academic Press Inc. 2022 Article PeerReviewed Hitam, C. N. C. and A. Jalil, A. (2022) Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview. Environmental Research, 204 (NA). pp. 1-17. ISSN 0013-9351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111964 DOI : 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111964
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Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview
description As one of the potential bionanomaterials, nanocellulose has appeared as a favorable candidate for photoremediation of the environment because of its abundance in nature, inexpensive, eco-friendly, decomposable, high surface area, and outstanding mechanical properties. The current review carefully summarized the diverse type of nanocellulose, their preparation approaches, and several previous works on the use of nanocellulose for photoremediation. These include the role of nanocellulose for the increased surface active site of the hybrid photocatalysts by providing a large surface area for enhanced adsorption of photons and pollutant molecules, as a dispersing agent to increase distribution of metal/non-metal dopants photocatalysts, as well as for controlled size and morphology of the dopants photocatalysts. Furthermore, the recommendations for upcoming research provided in this review are anticipated to ignite an idea for the development of other nanocellulose-based photocatalysts. Other than delivering beneficial information on the present growth of the nanocellulose biomaterials photocatalysts, this review is expected will attract more interest to the utilization of nanocellulose photocatalyst and distribute additional knowledge in this exciting area of environmental photoremediation. This could be attained by considering that a review on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation has not been described elsewhere, notwithstanding intensive research works have been dedicated to this topic.
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author Hitam, C. N. C.
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title Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview
title_short Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview
title_full Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview
title_fullStr Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview
title_full_unstemmed Recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: An overview
title_sort recent advances on nanocellulose biomaterials for environmental health photoremediation: an overview
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111964
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