A research team of scholars' from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Beijing Normal University verified the potential benefits of public-private partnerships in improving the efficiency of urban wastewater treatment.

A group of academic principle investigator's from multiple countries (Poland, Taiwan and India) were developed an efficient adsorbent of magnetite nanoparticles decorated PVA-modified PEI-h-BNNSs aerogel (adsorbent) for efficiently capturing of heavy metals and organic dyes from an aqueous solution.