Recent advances of carbon materials on pesticides removal and extraction based determination from polluted water

Abstract

Removal and determination of pesticides from polluted water are both curial topics for water safety control, and carbon materials have been widely explored for pesticides removal and extraction based determination. In this review, carbon materials reported in recent ten years for pesticides extraction and determination from polluted water are divided into 12 types, which include natural carbon materials, biochar, activated carbon, graphene, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), fullerene, carbon dots, carbon fiber, derived carbon materials, doped carbon materials, carbon based polymers, and carbon composites. Their characteristics, properties, functional strategies, and applications are detailedly presented, and these carbon materials based various solid-phase extraction (SPE) technologies for removal or determination of pesticides are summarized and discussed. Besides, type selection, adsorption affinities, applicable objects, application technologies, and development directions of these carbon materials are further discussed. Summarization of promising carbon materials and the extraction technologies aims to further promote them better exploration and application in pesticides removal and determination fields.