ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS
This domain applies to physical and chemical materials for environmental treatment applications, with research efforts towards water technology, environmental / sustainable chemistry and environmental material science. To support endeavours such as industrial wastewater treatment, advanced oxidation, sorption, value-creating green products and processes, food safety and water recycling, and other advanced environmental analysis
Its R.E.D efforts are focused around these 3 key areas:
Water Technology
- Industrial waste water treatment
- Innovative advanced oxidation processes
- Rapid drinking water disinfection
- ZLD technology
Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental catalysis and catalytic processes
- Environmental monitoring and toxicity analysis
- Smart reusable sorbents
- Green and sustainable nanotechnology
Environmental Materials Science
- Functional materials derived from biomasses and incineration ash
- Green chemicals and materials from renewable resources
- New materials for non-conventional filtration and separation
- Plastic waste and microplastics
Areas of research
Physical and chemical materials for environmental treatment applications.
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Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP)
- Photocatalysis
- Ozonation
- Hybrid Combinations
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Catalysis
- Novel materials for disinfection,
- lower energy
- recyclable
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Sorption
- Hydrogel
- Activated Carbon
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Resource recovery
- Valuable metal recovery from waste streams
Chemical technologies for industrial wastewater - advanced oxidation process
Chemical Tech for Industrial wastewater
Development of novel superabsorbent cryogels for point of use water treatment
Development of Cryogels_compressed
For a list of publications, please click here
Research enquiries: Professor Hu Xiao (Programme Director) [email protected]
Lab safety enquires: Dr Tejasri Gopi (Lab Manager) [email protected]