Goals: The project aims to develop new composites based on macroporous cryogels and MXene from titanium carbide to effectively remove common antibiotics from model and urban wastewater. The composites will be engineered to have nano- to macroscale pore structures, individualized functional groups on the surface, and photocatalytic properties.
Tasks: To achieve the goals of the project, the project is divided into 8 work packages
Short abstract about project: The use of antibiotics is growing from year to year, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, it probably has increased drastically. Non-adsorbed antibiotics and their metabolites are mainly excreted with urine and feeсes and part of them ends up in urban wastewater. The municipal wastewater treatment plants are not designed for antibiotics removal, therefore contamination and methods of purification from these pharmaceuticals pose a significant and poorly studied problem. This project
aims at the development of a composite material based on macroporous cryogel and promising novel 2D MXene materials for the removal of the most common antibiotics from aqueous solutions by photocatalytic and non-catalytic reactions. Cryogels and MXenes separately have proven as effective adsorbents for water purification, and our main hypothesis is that combining these sorbents in a composite material will
synergistically improve their efficiency.
Tasks: To achieve the goals of the project, the project is divided into 8 work packages
- Synthesis and/or optimization of a number of amphoteric cryogel scaffolds fromvarious monomeric precursors.
- Characterization of developed cryogels
- Modification of cryogels with titanium carbide based MXene.
- Study of chemistry, morphological and physicochemical properties of the obtained composites.
- Investigation of the efficiency of composites in removal of antibiotics under static (isothermic) and dynamic (kinetics and filtration study) conditions in spiked water and wastewater effluents, using photocatalytic and non-catalytic conditions.
- Post-removal studies of composites, the effect of multi-component composition on the elimination capacity.
- Presentation of project results at local, regional and national levels
- Project management
Short abstract about project: The use of antibiotics is growing from year to year, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, it probably has increased drastically. Non-adsorbed antibiotics and their metabolites are mainly excreted with urine and feeсes and part of them ends up in urban wastewater. The municipal wastewater treatment plants are not designed for antibiotics removal, therefore contamination and methods of purification from these pharmaceuticals pose a significant and poorly studied problem. This project
aims at the development of a composite material based on macroporous cryogel and promising novel 2D MXene materials for the removal of the most common antibiotics from aqueous solutions by photocatalytic and non-catalytic reactions. Cryogels and MXenes separately have proven as effective adsorbents for water purification, and our main hypothesis is that combining these sorbents in a composite material will
synergistically improve their efficiency.