Advanced Porous Materials for the Removal of Lead from Water: Synthesis, Mechanisms, Sustainability, and Future Perspectives

Advik Pathak; Soumyadip Patra; Sagar Subhash Babar; Suman Chirra

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Advanced Porous Materials for the Removal of Lead from Water: Synthesis, Mechanisms, Sustainability, and Future Perspectives

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Advik Pathak¹, Soumyadip Patra¹, Sagar Subhash Babar¹, Suman Chirra¹^{, *}

¹School of Sciences, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502 345, India

^*Corresponding author. Email: chirrasuman@gmail.com

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Suman Chirra

Available Online 23 October 2025.

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Keywords: Lead removal; MOFs; COFs; adsorption; water purification; sustainability
Abstract: Lead contamination in water presents a critical global challenge due to its persistence, toxicity, and diverse sources. Advanced porous materials such as MOFs, COFs, zeolites, graphene oxide, and biochar have emerged as transformative solutions for water purification. This review examines their synthesis, characterization, performance under varied conditions, regeneration strategies, environmental impacts, and future prospects, including green synthesis, machine learning integration, techno-economic analysis, and pilot-scale testing. Compared to MXenes and functionalized silica, MOFs offer superior adsorption capacities and tunable porosity, whereas MXenes provide higher conductivity but remain costlier. Currently, no techno-economic analysis or pilot-scale tests have been conducted within this study, though future work will evaluate scalability. Furthermore, no comprehensive lifecycle assessment comparing these materials with conventional adsorbents exists to date. Overall, advanced porous materials hold significant promise for achieving the WHO water quality standards sustainably.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Science and Technology for Tomorrow (SciTech 2024)
Series: Atlantis Advances in Applied Sciences
Publication Date: 23 October 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6463-876-9
ISSN: 3091-4442
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-876-9_25 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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