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Xue Q, Jiao Z, Pan W, Liu X, Fu J, Zhang A. Multiscale computational simulation of pollutant behavior at water interfaces. WATER RESEARCH 2024; 250:121043. [PMID: 38154340 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.121043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 12/30/2023]
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The investigation of pollutant behavior at water interfaces is critical to understand pollution in aquatic systems. Computational methods allow us to overcome the limitations of experimental analysis, delivering valuable insights into the chemical mechanisms and structural characteristics of pollutant behavior at interfaces across a range of scales, from microscopic to mesoscopic. Quantum mechanics, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, and dissipative particle dynamics simulations represent diverse molecular interaction calculation methods that can effectively model pollutant behavior at environmental interfaces from atomic to mesoscopic scales. These methods provide a rich variety of information on pollutant interactions with water surfaces. This review synthesizes the advancements in applying typical computational methods to the formation, adsorption, binding, and catalytic conversion of pollutants at water interfaces. By drawing on recent advancements, we critically examine the current challenges and offer our perspective on future directions. This review seeks to advance our understanding of computational techniques for elucidating pollutant behavior at water interfaces, a critical aspect of water research.
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- Qiao Xue
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; School of Environment, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Hangzhou 310024, China; Institute of Environment and Health, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; School of Environment, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Hangzhou 310024, China; Institute of Environment and Health, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China.
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Parambath JBM, Abla F, Arooj M, Mohamed AA. Doping matters in carbon nanomaterial efficiency in environmental remediation. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:124921-124933. [PMID: 36609974 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-25147-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) are rapidly emerging in materials science research due to their widespread environmental applications. They are useful for environmental pollutants' remediation through various methods. Heteroatom doping resulted in reliable approaches to overcome pristine CNMs challenges. The engineering of the dopants is believed to be a promising route to improve the efficiency of CNMs in environmental remediation. The idea of doping has been attractive since it allows the control of electronic properties due to the electron transfer between dopants and the host material and the dopants along with the bonding between analogous atoms and carbon atoms. This mini-review, through computational and experimental studies, puts special emphasis on the role of doping different CNMs as an efficient approach to enhance the environmental remediation.
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- Javad B M Parambath
- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Center for Advanced Materials Research, Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Center for Advanced Materials Research, Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Center for Advanced Materials Research, Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
- Center for Advanced Materials Research, Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
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Mousavi SZ, Shadman HR, Habibi M, Didandeh M, Nikzad A, Golmohammadi M, Maleki R, Suwaileh WA, Khataee A, Zargar M, Razmjou A. Elucidating the Sorption Mechanisms of Environmental Pollutants Using Molecular Simulation. Ind Eng Chem Res 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c02333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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- Seyedeh Zahra Mousavi
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 1411944961, Iran
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- Department of Polymer Engineering & Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, 6351713178, Iran
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, 6718773654, Iran
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 1411944961, Iran
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Polymer Engineering & Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, 6351713178, Iran
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- Department of Chemical Technologies, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), P.O. Box 33535111, Tehran, 3313193685, Iran
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- Chemical Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha 23874, Qatar
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- Research Laboratory of Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tabriz, 51666-16471 Tabriz, Iran
- Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Near East University, 99138 Nicosia, Mersin 10 Turkey
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- Mineral Recovery Research Center (MRRC), School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Perth WA 6027, Australia
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- Mineral Recovery Research Center (MRRC), School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Perth WA 6027, Australia
- UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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Effective removal of water-soluble methylated arsenic contaminants with phosphorene oxide nanoflakes: A DFT study. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Ortega DE, Cortés-Arriagada D. Exploring the Nature of Interaction and Stability between Water-Soluble Arsenic Pollutants and Metal–Phosphorene Hybrids: A Density Functional Theory Study. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:3662-3671. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Daniela E. Ortega
- Centro Integrativo de Biologı́a y Quı́mica Aplicada (CIBQA), Universidad Bernardo OHiggins, Santiago 8370854, Chile
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- Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Ignacio Valdivieso, 2409, San Joaquín, Santiago 8940577, Chile
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Cortes-Arriagada D, Mella A. Performance of doped graphene nanoadsorbents with first-row transition metals (Sc Zn) for the adsorption of water-soluble trivalent arsenicals: A DFT study. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.111665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Interaction of trivalent arsenic on different topologies of Fe-doped graphene nanosheets at water environments: A computational study. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.111137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Cortés-Arriagada D. Expanding the environmental applications of metal (Al, Ti, Mn, Fe) doped graphene: adsorption and removal of 1,4-dioxane. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 18:32281-32292. [PMID: 27849092 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp07311e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The potential applications of Al, Ti, Mn and Fe-doped graphene for environmental remediation of 1,4-dioxane (a critical pollutant and toxic compound) are analyzed in detail in the framework of density functional theory calculations. 1,4-Dioxane is a highly mobile and soluble pollutant and developing new strategies for its adsorption and subsequent removal becomes an important issue. All the systems were fully optimized and analyzed in their most stable spin states. The results determined that the proposed doped-graphene materials enhance the interaction with 1,4-dioxane compared to intrinsic graphene, with adsorption energies in the range of 1.2-1.6 eV. The high stability of the adsorbent-dioxane interactions is fully discussed in terms of chemical metal-dioxane binding, charge transfer and long-range interactions. The adsorbent-dioxane adsorption is also accompanied by changes in the electronic structure with respect to the isolated substrates, which are larger for Mn and Fe as dopants. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations also show that the adsorbent-adsorbate interactions remain strong at room temperature (300 K). Finally, implicit/explicit solvent methodologies were implemented to get insights into the effects of aqueous environments on the adsorption strength, which shows the high stability of interaction in water, sorting the sorption efficiency as AlG ≈ FeG > MnG ≈ TiG. From these new insights, Al, Ti, Mn and Fe-doped graphene emerge as new potential materials to be applied in technologies related to the removal of 1,4-dioxane.
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- Diego Cortés-Arriagada
- Nucleus Millennium Chemical Processes and Catalysis, Laboratorio de Química Teórica Computacional (QTC), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile.
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Cortés-Arriagada D, Villegas-Escobar N, Miranda-Rojas S, Toro-Labbé A. Adsorption/desorption process of formaldehyde onto iron doped graphene: a theoretical exploration from density functional theory calculations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:4179-4189. [PMID: 27990518 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp07710b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The interaction of formaldehyde (H2CO) onto Fe-doped graphene (FeG) was studied in detail from density functional theory calculations and electronic structure analyses. Our aim was to obtain insights into the adsorption, desorption and sensing properties of FeG towards H2CO, a hazardous organic compound. The adsorption of H2CO was shown to be energetically stable onto FeG, with adsorption energies of up to 1.45 eV and favored in different conformations. This interaction was determined to be mostly electrostatic in nature, where the oxygen plays an important role in this contribution; besides, our quantum molecular dynamics results showed the high stability of the FeG-H2CO interaction at ambient temperature (300 K). All the interactions were determined to be accompanied by an increase in the HOMO-LUMO energy gap with respect to the isolated adsorbent, indicating that FeG is highly sensitive to H2CO with respect to pristine graphene. Finally, it was found that external electric fields of 0.04-0.05 a.u. were able to induce the pollutant desorption from the adsorbent, allowing the adsorbent reactivation for repetitive applications. These results indicate that FeG could be a promising candidate for adsorption/sensing platforms of H2CO.
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- Diego Cortés-Arriagada
- Nucleus Millennium Chemical Processes and Catalysis, Laboratorio de Química Teórica Computacional (QTC), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile.
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- Nucleus Millennium Chemical Processes and Catalysis, Laboratorio de Química Teórica Computacional (QTC), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile.
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- Departamento de Ciencias Químicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Andrés Bello, Avenida República 275, Santiago, Chile
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- Nucleus Millennium Chemical Processes and Catalysis, Laboratorio de Química Teórica Computacional (QTC), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile.
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Cortés-Arriagada D, Miranda-Rojas S, Ortega DE, Toro-Labbé A. Oxidized and Si-doped graphene: emerging adsorbents for removal of dioxane. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:17587-17597. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp03076b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The adsorption properties of oxidized graphene (GO) and Si-doped graphene (SiG) towards 1,4-dioxane were theoretically characterized.
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- Diego Cortés-Arriagada
- Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación
- Desarrollo e Innovación
- Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
- Santiago
- Chile
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- Departamento de Ciencias Químicas
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas
- Universidad Andrés Bello
- Santiago
- Chile
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- Laboratorio de Química Teórica Computacional (QTC)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Santiago 9900087
- Chile
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- Laboratorio de Química Teórica Computacional (QTC)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Santiago 9900087
- Chile
- Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
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