Inna V. Melnyk is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Geotechnics SAS, Kosice, Slovak Republic and the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research focuses in the areas of sol-gel technique, surface chemistry, directed synthesis and design of hybrid materials (magnetically controlled particles, silica particles, membranes) and their application in sorption processes, water purification, bionanotechnology. Miroslava Vaclavikova is principle Senior Scientist, Institute of Geotechnics SAS, Kosice, Slovak Republic. Her research focuses in environmental technologies, especially on development, testing and applications of novel materials based on iron oxides for the removal of heavy metals as well as on surface modification of minerals such as zeolites, clays, and carbon. Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Her research focuses include the tailoring of functional hybrid adsorbents for water remed
