| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: A review | Chemosphere | 2014 | 3,175 |
| 2 | Heavy metals in food crops: Health risks, fate, mechanisms, and management | Environment International | 2019 | 1,135 |
| 3 | Engineered/designer biochar for contaminant removal/immobilization from soil and water: Potential and implication of biochar modification | Chemosphere | 2016 | 959 |
| 4 | Trichloroethylene adsorption by pine needle biochars produced at various pyrolysis temperatures | Bioresource Technology | 2013 | 319 |
| 5 | Evaluating biochar and its modifications for the removal of ammonium, nitrate, and phosphate in water | Water Research | 2020 | 248 |
| 6 | Review of nanomaterials as sorbents in solid-phase extraction for environmental samples | TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry | 2018 | 240 |
| 7 | Remediation of soils and sediments polluted with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: To immobilize, mobilize, or degrade? | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2021 | 150 |
| 8 | Impact of soybean stover- and pine needle-derived biochars on Pb and As mobility, microbial community, and carbon stability in a contaminated agricultural soil | Journal of Environmental Management | 2016 | 144 |
| 9 | Recent advances in control technologies for non-point source pollution with nitrogen and phosphorous from agricultural runoff: current practices and future prospects | Applied Biological Chemistry | 2020 | 129 |
| 10 | Invasive plant-derived biochar inhibits sulfamethazine uptake by lettuce in soil | Chemosphere | 2014 | 116 |
| 11 | Characterization of bioenergy biochar and its utilization for metal/metalloid immobilization in contaminated soil | Science of the Total Environment | 2018 | 110 |
| 12 | Acid-activated biochar increased sulfamethazine retention in soils | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2015 | 107 |
| 13 | Spatial distribution of heavy metals in crops in a wastewater irrigated zone and health risk assessment | Environmental Research | 2019 | 90 |
| 14 | Sources, distribution, bioavailability, toxicity, and risk assessment of heavy metal(loid)s in complementary medicines | Environment International | 2017 | 78 |
| 15 | Recent advances in carbon nanotube sponge–based sorption technologies for mitigation of marine oil spills | Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | 2020 | 69 |
| 16 | Biochars as Potential Adsorbers of CH4, CO2 and H2S | Sustainability | 2017 | 68 |
| 17 | Bioaccumulation of potentially toxic elements by submerged plants and biofilms: A critical review | Environment International | 2019 | 65 |
| 18 | Ammonium removal using a calcined natural zeolite modified with sodium nitrate | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2020 | 65 |
| 19 | Sorption Process of Date Palm Biochar for Aqueous Cd (II) Removal: Efficiency and Mechanisms | Water, Air, and Soil Pollution | 2016 | 63 |
| 20 | A remediation approach to chromium-contaminated water and soil using engineered biochar derived from peanut shell | Environmental Research | 2022 | 57 |
| 21 | Design, Synthesis, DFT Study and Antifungal Activity of Pyrazolecarboxamide Derivatives | Molecules | 2016 | 51 |
| 22 | Defective borate-decorated polymer carbon nitride: Enhanced photocatalytic NO removal, synergy effect and reaction pathway | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | 2019 | 50 |
| 23 | Biochar soil amendment for sustainable agriculture with carbon and contaminant sequestration | Carbon Management | 2014 | 48 |
| 24 | Interrelationships between tetracyclines and nitrogen cycling processes mediated by microorganisms: A review | Bioresource Technology | 2021 | 48 |
| 25 | Column adsorption of 2-naphthol from aqueous solution using carbon nanotube-based composite adsorbent | Chemical Engineering Journal | 2018 | 46 |
| 26 | Transport of micro- and nanoplastics in the environment: Trojan-Horse effect for organic contaminants | Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology | 2022 | 45 |
| 27 | Reduced TiO2 nanoflower structured photoanodes for superior photoelectrochemical water splitting | Journal of Alloys and Compounds | 2017 | 44 |
| 28 | Biochar alters chemical and microbial properties of microplastic-contaminated soil | Environmental Research | 2022 | 43 |
| 29 | Fabrication and application of magnetic starch-based activated hierarchical porous carbon spheres for the efficient removal of dyes from water | Materials Chemistry and Physics | 2016 | 39 |
| 30 | Sorption of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) to Lignin: Effects of Hydrophobicity and Temperature | Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 2014 | 37 |
| 31 | Highly Effective Removal of Tetracycline from Water by Hierarchical Porous Carbon: Batch and Column Adsorption | Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research | 2019 | 37 |
| 32 | Sorption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from water and wastewater by carbonaceous materials: A review | Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology | 2022 | 37 |
| 33 | Thermolysis of crude oil sludge using CO2 as reactive gas medium | Energy Conversion and Management | 2019 | 36 |
| 34 | Fabrication of spherical biochar by a two-step thermal process from waste potato peel | Science of the Total Environment | 2018 | 35 |
| 35 | Organo-layered double hydroxides for the removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from soil washing effluents containing high concentrations of surfactants | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2019 | 35 |
| 36 | Fabrication and application of hierarchical porous carbon for the adsorption of bulky dyes | Microporous and Mesoporous Materials | 2019 | 34 |
| 37 | Efficient succinic acid production using a biochar-treated textile waste hydrolysate in an in situ fibrous bed bioreactor | Biochemical Engineering Journal | 2019 | 34 |
| 38 | Adsorption–desorption behavior of naphthalene onto CDMBA modified bentonite: Contribution of the π–π interaction | Applied Clay Science | 2014 | 33 |
| 39 | Adsorption Characteristics of a Novel Carbon-Nanotube-Based Composite Adsorbent toward Organic Pollutants | Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research | 2015 | 32 |
| 40 | Hierarchical Pd/MnO2 nanosheet array supported on Ni foam: An advanced electrode for electrocatalytic hydrodechlorination reaction | Applied Surface Science | 2020 | 32 |
| 41 | Retention and transport behavior of microplastic particles in water-saturated porous media | Science of the Total Environment | 2022 | 32 |
| 42 | Deactivation effects of Pb(II) and sulfur dioxide on a γ-MnO2 catalyst for combustion of chlorobenzene | Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | 2020 | 29 |
| 43 | Highly effective adsorption of antibiotics from water by hierarchically porous carbon: Effect of nanoporous geometry | Environmental Pollution | 2021 | 29 |
| 44 | Metal oxide and carbon nanomaterial based membranes for reverse osmosis and membrane distillation: A comparative review | Environmental Research | 2021 | 29 |
| 45 | Insights into the adsorption mechanism of tetracycline on hierarchically porous carbon and the effect of nanoporous geometry | Chemical Engineering Journal | 2022 | 28 |
| 46 | Strengthening Insights in Microbial Ecological Networks from Theory to Applications | MSystems | 2019 | 26 |
| 47 | Maize straw biochar addition inhibited pentachlorophenol dechlorination by strengthening the predominant soil reduction processes in flooded soil | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2020 | 26 |
| 48 | Synthesis of fatty acid methyl esters via non-catalytic transesterification of avocado oil with dimethyl carbonate | Energy Conversion and Management | 2019 | 25 |
| 49 | Removal of phosphate from water by paper mill sludge biochar | Environmental Pollution | 2022 | 25 |
| 50 | Removal of p-chlorophenol from aqueous solutions by carbon nanotube hybrid polymer adsorbents | Chemical Engineering Research and Design | 2017 | 24 |
