Inorganic nano-adsorbents for the removal of heavy metals and arsenic: A review

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 29885-29907

  Ray, Phoebe Zito ^a   Shipley, Heather J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; HEAVY METALS; METAL IONS; TITANIUM OXIDES; YARN;

INORGANIC ADSORBENT; LOW COSTS; MAGHEMITES; METAL OXIDES; NANO SCALE; NANOADSORBENTS;

METALS;

EID: 84928910843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra02714d     Document Type: Article

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