Research Progress and Development of Expanded Graphite in Water Pollution Control

Expanded graphite is a new porous carbon-based adsorption material with well-developed pore structure and large adsorption capacity for nonpolar molecules pollutants. In this paper, research of the expanded graphite as novel functional carbon material in the fields of environmental remediation of oil pollution and wastewater treatment are reviewed. Based on this, the problems that exist in the current research on expanded graphite in treatment of environmental pollution are analyzed, and the main development trend of research on expanded graphite in the field of water environmental protection is put forward.