Abstract
Access to clean drinking water is a recognized societal need that touches on the health and livelihood of millions of people worldwide. This is providing an incentive to develop new water-treatment technologies. Traditional technologies, while widespread, are usually inefficient at removing organic pollutants from sewage or so-called grey water. Macrocycle-containing covalent polymer networks have begun to attract attention in the context of water treatment owing to the inherent stability provided by the polymer backbones and their ability to capture micropollutant guests as the result of tunable macrocycle-based host–guest interactions. In this Minireview, we summarize recent advances (from 2016 to mid-2020) involving the removal of organic micropollutants from water using macrocycle-containing covalent polymer networks. An overview of future challenges within this subfield is also provided.
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | Angewandte Chemie |
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State | Published - Jul 27 2020 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2019-CRG-4032
Acknowledgements: X. Ji. acknowledges initial funding from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where he is being supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (grant 2020kfyXJJS013). H.W. is grateful for support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21975153) and Shanghai Pujiang Program (2019PJD017) for financial support. Acknowledgement is also made to the University of Texas System for a CONACYT Collaborative Research Grant to J.L.S. and the Robert A. Welch Foundation (grants F-0018 to J.L.S. and F-2007 to Z.A.P.) and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (OSR-2019-CRG-4032 to J.L.S. and N.M.K.)