Recent Advances in Endocrine Disrupting Compounds Degradation through Metal Oxide-Based Nanomaterials

Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) comprise a class of natural or synthetic molecules and groups substances which are considered as emerging contaminants due to their toxicity danger for the ecosystems, including human health. Nowadays, presence EDCs in water wastewater has become global problem, is challenging scientific community address development application effective strategies removal from environment. Particularly, catalytic photocatalytic degradation processes employing nanostructured materials based on metal oxides, mainly acting through generation reactive oxygen species, widely explored eradicate water. In this review, we report recent advances described by major publications years focused several classes EDCs, such plastic components additives, agricultural chemicals, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, were realized using novel oxide-based nanomaterials. A variety doped, hybrid, composite heterostructured semiconductors reported, whose performances influenced chemical, structural well morphological features. Along with photocatalysis, alternative heterogeneous advanced oxidation development, combination may be promising way toward industrial scale application.