The worldwide development of agriculture and industry has resulted in contamination of water bodies by pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other xenobiotics. Even at trace levels of few micrograms per liter in waters, these contaminants induce public health and environmental issues, thus calling for efficient removal methods such as adsorption. Recent adsorption techniques for wastewater treatment involve metal oxide compounds, e.g. Fe2O3, ZnO, Al2O3 and ZnO-MgO, and carbon-based materials such as graphene oxide, activated carbon, carbon nanotubes, and carbon/graphene quantum dots. Here, the small size of metal oxides and the presence various functional groups has allowed higher adsorption efficiencies. Moreover, carbon-based adsorbents exhibit unique properties such as high surface area, high porosity, easy functionalization, low price, and high surface reactivity. Here we review the cytotoxic effects of pharmaceutical drugs and pesticides in terms of human risk and ecotoxicology. We also present remediation techniques involving adsorption on metal oxides and carbon-based materials.

• Klíčová slova
• Carbon nanostructures, Human risk, Metal oxides, Pesticides, Pharmaceutical,
• MeSH
• adsorpce MeSH
• chemické látky znečišťující vodu * analýza   toxicita   MeSH
• léčivé přípravky * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• nanostruktury * MeSH
• nanotrubičky uhlíkové * toxicita   MeSH
• oxidy toxicita   MeSH
• pesticidy * analýza   toxicita   MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• přehledy MeSH
• Názvy látek
• chemické látky znečišťující vodu * MeSH
• léčivé přípravky * MeSH
• nanotrubičky uhlíkové * MeSH
• oxidy MeSH
• pesticidy * MeSH