The provision of clean water is still a major challenge in developing parts of the world, as emphasized by the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 6), and has remained a subject of extensive research globally. Advancements in science and industry have resulted in a massive surge in the amount of industrial chemicals produced within the last few decades. Persistent and emerging organic pollutants are detected in aquatic environments, and conventional wastewater treatment plants have ineffectively handled these trace, bioaccumulative and toxic compounds. Therefore, we have conducted an extensive bibliometric analysis of different materials utilized to combat organic pollutants via adsorption and photocatalysis. The classes of pollutants, material synthesis, mechanisms of interaction, merits, and challenges were comprehensively discussed. The paper highlights the advantages of various materials used in the removal of hazardous pollutants from wastewater with activated carbon having the highest adsorption capacity. Dyes, pharmaceuticals, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, pesticides and other recalcitrant organic pollutants have been successfully removed at high degradation efficiencies through the photocatalytic process. The photocatalytic degradation and adsorption processes were compared by considering factors such as cost, efficiency, ease of application and reusability. This review will be good resource material for water treatment professionals/scientists, who may be interested in adsorptive and photocatalytic remediation of organic chemicals pollutants.

正如联合国可持续发展目标 (SDG 6) 所强调的那样，提供清洁水仍然是世界发展中地区的一项重大挑战，并且一直是全球广泛研究的主题。在过去的几十年里，科学和工业的进步导致工业化学品的生产量大幅增加。在水生环境中检测到持久性和新出现的有机污染物，而传统的废水处理厂未能有效地处理这些痕量、生物累积性和有毒化合物。因此，我们对用于通过吸附和光催化对抗有机污染物的不同材料进行了广泛的文献计量分析. 对污染物的类别、材料合成、相互作用机制、优点和挑战进行了全面讨论。该论文强调了使用具有最高吸附能力的活性炭去除废水中有害污染物的各种材料的优势。染料、药物、内分泌干扰化学品、杀虫剂和其他顽固的有机污染物已通过光催化过程以高降解效率成功去除。通过考虑成本、效率、易用性和可重复使用性等因素对光催化降解和吸附过程进行了比较。这篇评论将是很好的资源材料水处理专业人员/科学家，他们可能对有机化学品污染物的吸附和光催化修复感兴趣。