Montmorillonite for Adsorption and Catalytic Elimination of Pollutants from Wastewater: A State-of-the-Arts Review

Clay minerals have been recognized as one of the cheap and effective materials for wastewater remediation. Among various clay minerals, montmorillonite (MMT) has received much attention due to its wide availability, low-cost promising properties such high porosity, mechanical strength, cation exchange capacity. Additionally, MMT swelling properties. These features make it an ideal material remediation applications. In addition, possessed good cationic capacity, making easier interact with molecules. composites exhibited selectivity catalytic activity contaminants elimination from wastewater. Surface modification functionalization identified a way improve MMT’s adsorptive performance endow light light-harnessing Thus, composites, especially metal metal-oxide nanoparticles, shown adsorption photocatalytic toward elimination/mineralization dyes, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, other organic inorganic species. As such, can be adopted potential