Origin, dietary exposure, and toxicity of endocrine-disrupting food chemical contaminants: A comprehensive review

L Peivasteh-Roudsari, R Barzegar-Bafrouei, KA Sharifi… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are a growing public health concern worldwide.
Consumption of foodstuffs is currently thought to be one of the principal exposure routes to …

Advances in flame retardant poly (lactic acid)

B Tawiah, B Yu, B Fei - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
PLA has become a commodity polymer with wide applications in a number of fields.
However, its high flammability with the tendency to flow in fire has limited its viability as a …

Fire retardancy in nanocomposites by using nanomaterial additives

F Teles, G Martins, F Antunes - Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of flame retardant (FR) additives is the most common strategy to impart fire retardant
properties to polymer-based materials. However, most commercially available FRs are …

[HTML][HTML] Endocrine-active and endocrine-disrupting compounds in food–occurrence, formation and relevance

C Stiefel, F Stintzing - NFS Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, global concerns regarding possible adverse health effects of
chemical pollutants on the hormonal systems of living organisms in wildlife and humans are …

Theoretical and experimental adsorption studies of phenol and crystal violet dye on carbon nanotube functionalized with deep eutectic solvent

IA Lawal, MM Lawal, MA Azeez, P Ndungu - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019 - Elsevier
The removal of phenol and crystal violet dye using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) modified with
deep eutectic solvent (DES) was investigated. DES (mixture of methyltriphenylphosphonium …

Deep eutectic solvent as an efficient modifier of low-cost adsorbent for the removal of pharmaceuticals and dye

IA Lawal, M Klink, P Ndungu - Environmental research, 2019 - Elsevier
Waste from biomass was used to prepare a low–cost biochar–clay hybrid adsorbent. The
hybrid adsorbent was synthesised by combining Kaolin with biomass (Vitex doniana) …

Recent developments of electrospun nanofibrous materials as novel adsorbents for water treatment

Y Zhang, F Wang, Y Wang - Materials Today Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrospun nanofibers have shown great potential for removal of contaminants from
aqueous solutions owing to their large specific surface area, high porosity, easy …

Covalently linked graphene oxide/reduced graphene oxide-methoxylether polyethylene glycol functionalised silica for scavenging of estrogen: Adsorption …

SO Akpotu, IA Lawal, B Moodley, AE Ofomaja - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Water pollution by pharmaceuticals is a global issue and its remediation is important. To
overcome this, we synthesised super hydrophobic nanoporous 3-dimensional ordered …

Recent advancement in visible‐light‐responsive photocatalysts in heterogeneous photocatalytic water treatment technology

S Pandey, KK Mandari, J Kim, M Kang… - Photocatalysts in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the recent year, photocatalysis has hold of really extensive attention because of its
encouraging applications such as in photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants …

Noncovalent graphene oxide functionalized with ionic liquid: theoretical, isotherm, kinetics, and regeneration studies on the adsorption of pharmaceuticals

IA Lawal, MM Lawal, SO Akpotu… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sulfamethoxazole (SMZ), carbamazepine (CBZ), and ketoprofen (KET) adsorption using
graphene oxide (GO) functionalized with ionic liquids (IL) was investigated. Ionic liquid 1 …