Water pollution is now a major challenge globally that impedes sustainable development and threatens public health, due to industrialization, urbanization, agricultural runoff, dyes, pharmaceutical residues, and emerging contaminants. Conventional water treatment technologies can be cumbersome in removing low-concentration hazardous pollutants effectively, this often includes significant usage of energy or the production of secondary waste. More effective advanced materials, associating high surface area, modifiable chemistry that could be achieved during production, such as hybrid systems based on biochar and its analogues or other fully sustainable designs functionalized membranes appear to be a good alternative. Through the potentials of efficient pollutant removal and resource recovery, they provide scalable and sustainable approaches to contemporary water purification.

In this regard, School of Physical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus organizing one day workshop on “Advanced Materials for Water Treatment”. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, faculty members, scholars, and students working in the fields of materials science, environmental science, chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, and water treatment technologies. The event will provide an excellent platform for knowledge sharing, scientific discussions, and potential research collaborations.

The event will feature Dr. Tapati Sarkar from Uppsala University, Sweden, as the invited speaker, along with other distinguished experts from academia and research.

In this workshop experts from Amrita will also be demonstrating their research activities towards water treatment. This workshop can help to identify the potential materials for water treatment in large scale that are aligned with the UN sustainable development goal and university policy. It may help to explore the possible research collaborations between the universities.