Oxidative Polymerization in Water Treatment: Chemical Fundamentals and Future Perspectives

For several decades, the methodology of complete destruction of organic pollutants via oxidation, i.e., mineralization, has been rooted in real water treatment applications. Nevertheless, this industrially accepted protocol is far from sustainable because of the excessive input of chemicals and/or energy as well as the unregulated carbon emission. Recently, there have been emerging studies on the removal of organic pollutants via a completely different pathway, i.e., polymerization, meaning that the target pollutants undergo oxidative polymerization reactions to generate polymeric products. These studies have collectively shown that compared to the conventional mineralization pathway, the polymerization…

• JA
  Jiangsu Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Fund

  Award: CX(24)3114
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 22276095, 21925602, 22236003
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2021YFA1201703