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Recent advances in clean-up strategies of waters polluted with sulfonamide antibiotics: a review of sorbents and related properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. Martucci ,
I. Braschi ,
L. Marchese  and
S. Quartieri
A. Martucci
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via G. Saragat 1, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
I. Braschi*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale G. Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy Gruppo di Ricerca Fitofarmaci e Ambiente (GRIFA), Via Ospedale 72, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
L. Marchese
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica and Centro NanoSiSTeMI, Universita` del Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, Via T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy
S. Quartieri
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina S. Agata, Italy
*
** E-mail: ilaria.braschi@unibo.it
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Abstract

Several strategies are available to reduce or eliminate recalcitrant sulfonamide antibiotics (sulfa drugs) from aqueous media. These contaminants are bioactive and ubiquitous pollutants of soils and watercourses and are known to induce bacterial resistance. Here the biological, chemical and physical methods developed over the last 5 years to decontaminate waters polluted with sulfa drugs are reviewed with special attention to procedures that make use of porous adsorbent materials and their applicability to real waters.

Keywords

sulfa drugsadsorptiondegradationstructural propertieshost–guest interactionsguest–guest interactions
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 78 , Issue 5 , October 2014 , pp. 1115 - 1140
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2014

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