Researchers develop eco-friendly adsorbents to remove heavy metal ions
3D printing technique offers a cost-effective, scalable and simple approach to creating tunable adsorbents for environmental remediation that can be used broadly by the community for environmental remediation and sensing applications.
One of the leading causes of water pollution is heavy metal contamination which has profound adverse effects on human health and the environment. That’s why Clarkson University researchers have developed a cost-effective, 3D printing technology to create sustainable bio-based adsorbents that can effectively remove toxic heavy metal ions from contaminated environments.
The 3D printing technique offers a cost-effective, scalable and simple approach to creating tunable adsorbents for environmental remediation that can be used broadly by the community for environmental remediation and sensing applications. The work performed in the laboratory of Professor Silvana Andreescu, the Egon Matijevic Chair in Chemistry, was recently featured on the front cover page of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journal, Environmental Science Advances. Nadia Cheng, a biomolecular science undergraduate, and two chemistry graduate students, Abraham S. Finny and Oluwatossin Popoola, were involved in the project. Nadia started her work on this project as a senior in high school and then as a Clarkson School student.