Water Purification

Water Purification

Water contamination by toxic heavy metals such as Pb2+, Hg2+ and Cd2+ and radioactive fission product of nuclear waste is becoming an increasingly important issue in separation science and environmental remediation. Our group designs low cost, wide pH range stable, layered chalcogenides based adsorbents for efficient removal of dissolved contaminants from ppb level with high sorption capacity. We are also interested in designing filtration-unit prototypes for water purification.