Laboratoire Biotechnologies, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Biotechnologie, Ville Universitaire Ali Mendjeli, BP E66 25100, Constantine, Algeria.
Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, P. O. Box, 2713, Doha, Qatar.
Environ Res. 2022 Jan;203:111845. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111845. Epub 2021 Aug 10.
The best exceptional Physico-chemical attributes of MXenes including high conductivity, high surface area, high functionalization, hydroxide site, and other interesting properties have attracted recently the attention of scientists in the applications of MXene (MXT)-based nanomaterials for water treatment. To provide a full and comprehensive vision of the current state of the art, and improve the treatment performance, and motivate new researches in this area, this review focused on the uses of these novel 2D transition metal carbides for desalination of water and the general methods of fabrication of MXenes; thus, MXene-based nanomaterials are very efficient candidates in water desalination processes, in this review, the main properties of previous and current works about MXenes applications in this area were properly investigated. Moreover, a particular overview about the different properties of MXenes in desalination such as etching method, hydrophobicity, structural modification, and chemical modification has been performed; meanwhile, the investigation of MXenes and MXenes-based composites would be an excellent candidate in the future of water purification and environmental remediation fields, since they have several good properties compared to the other 2D materials.
MXenes 的最佳特殊物理化学特性包括高导电性、高比表面积、高功能化、氢氧化物位和其他有趣的特性，最近引起了科学家们对基于 MXene（MXT）的纳米材料在水处理中应用的关注。为了全面了解当前的最新技术，提高处理性能，并激发该领域的新研究，本综述重点介绍了这些新型二维过渡金属碳化物在海水淡化中的应用以及 MXenes 的一般制备方法；因此，基于 MXene 的纳米材料是海水淡化过程中的高效候选材料，在本综述中，适当研究了之前和当前关于 MXenes 在该领域应用的主要性质。此外，还对 MXenes 在脱盐方面的不同性质（如蚀刻方法、疏水性、结构改性和化学改性）进行了特别概述；同时，由于 MXenes 及其复合材料具有与其他二维材料相比的几个优良性质，因此它们将成为未来水净化和环境修复领域的优秀候选材料。
