The development of the project within the consortium increased the knowledge of the participants in several fields, such as analytical, environmental, inorganic and physical chemistry, chemometrics, membrane and materials science. New non-expensive green materials, usable several times, were synthesized with the aim to remove and/or degrade the pollutants present in water bodies taking advantage of cheap and renewable sources such as urban biowastes, allowing to increase the interest of the society towards the differentiate collection of residues and towards recycle and reuse of wastes. The state of the art behind the synthesis and the application of such new materials proceeded with the publication of several papers in international high-impact journals.
On the other hand, some new materials, oxidic (doped and non-doped) and also hybrid, were synthesized in order to obtain highly efficient photocatalysts for the mineralization of pollutants and membranes whose porosity is specific for the separation of chosen substrates, also basing on thermal stimuli able in opening and closing the pores of the membranes.
Not only the consortium took advantages from the interconnections born within the project, since the Mat4Treat action allowed to wide the number of people aware to the thematic of water pollution. People awareness generates attention to the possible ways to maintain the water clean for human needs, and this is one of the main purposes of Mat4Treat action. To reach this aim, the project was presented in several scientific and non-scientific meetings, in form of poster or oral presentations to congresses and workshops, in form of laboratories for schools and general audience, in form of written communication in a widely diffused journal in Italian and English.
