Magnetic nano- and microparticles for metal removal and environmental applications: a review.
Résumé
A review. Besides the numerous applications of magnetic particles in the fields of medicine, diagnostics, mol. biol. and bioinorg. chem., a high potential exists for these particles in environmental sciences. Several methods have been proposed these last years for the sepn. of metals from wastewater using either micro- or nano-magnetic particles. We describe here the synthesis of such particles, compare their magnetic properties, and discuss the possibility of selectivity for metals ions, namely radionuclides.