Additive manufacturing or 3D printing approaches have recently been tested for environmental applications including water and wastewater treatment. The ability to use a bottom-up approach of manufacturing complex structures with aded functionality at a lowered cost has triggered their potential usage in water applications. Nanomaterials with high surface area, adsorption capacity, and reactivity can be incorporated in 3D printed devices (passive) or directly 3D printed (active) to make new type of size/shape-configurable water treatment devices. This talk will briefly summarize the opportunities presented by additive manufacturing in developing high efficiency and advanced water treatment and pollution prevention technologies through leveraging nanomaterials and nanochemistry. Also, few example cases will be discussed to present how other advances in environmental engineering including data science can be employed to leverage the benefits of additive manufacturing. Finally, discussions will focus on challenges that remain in succesful implementation of additive manufacturing and large scale commercialization as well as how environmental and materials chemistry fundamentals will be able to address those challenges.

Additive manufacturing for nano-enabled water treatment technologies: Opportunities and challenges

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