Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in water and wastewater: a review of treatment processes and use of photocatalyst immobilized on functionalized carbon …

AO Oluwole, EO Omotola, OS Olatunji - BMC chemistry, 2020 - Springer
The presence of emerging contaminants such as pharmaceutical and personal care
products in many aqueous matrices have been reported. One of such matrix is streams of …

Glyphosate uptake, translocation, resistance emergence in crops, analytical monitoring, toxicity and degradation: a review

S Singh, V Kumar, S Datta, AB Wani… - Environmental chemistry …, 2020 - Springer
The herbicide glyphosate is widely used to control weeds in grain crops. The overuse of
glyphosate has induced issues such as contamination of surface water, decreased soils …

Occurrence, statutory guideline values and removal of contaminants of emerging concern by electrochemical advanced oxidation processes: a review

D Seibert, CF Zorzo, FH Borba, RM de Souza… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
A wide variety of chemical compounds are used in human activities; however, part of these
compounds reach surface water, groundwater and even water considered for potable uses …

[HTML][HTML] Nanostructured porous graphene for efficient removal of emerging contaminants (pharmaceuticals) from water

AME Khalil, FA Memon, TA Tabish, D Salmon… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical pollutants have become a worldwide concern. These emerging
contaminants (ECs) are ubiquitously found in different water streams with concentrations …

Ecological and human health risk of sulfonamides in surface water and groundwater of Huixian karst wetland in Guilin, China

LT Qin, XR Pang, HH Zeng, YP Liang, LY Mo… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sulfonamide antibiotics are contaminants of emerging concern (CEC). These CECs raise
considerable alarm because they are commonly present in water environments. Studies on …

Selected pharmaceuticals in different aquatic compartments: Part I—Source, fate and occurrence

A Pereira, L Silva, C Laranjeiro, C Lino, A Pena - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Potential risks associated with releases of human pharmaceuticals into the environment
have become an increasingly important issue in environmental health. This concern has …

Hydrogeochemical evaluation of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation purposes using water quality index in semi arid region of India

M Kumari, SC Rai - Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2020 - Springer
Groundwater is an important natural resource serving as a reliable source for drinking as
well irrigation purposes worldwide. This study was aimed to evaluate the hydrochemistry of …

[HTML][HTML] Asymmetric polyelectrolyte multilayer membranes with ultrathin separation layers for highly efficient micropollutant removal

E te Brinke, DM Reurink, I Achterhuis, J de Grooth… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
New membrane materials are urgently needed to address the increasing concentrations of
harmful organic micropollutants (eg pharmaceuticals, pesticides and plasticizers) in our …

In situ synthesis of defect-engineered MOFs as a photoregenerable catalytic adsorbent: understanding the effect of LML, adsorption behavior, and photoreaction …

Y Gao, J Lu, J Xia, G Yu - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020 - ACS Publications
Defect-engineering is an exciting strategy for the modification of metal-organic frameworks
(MOFs), which can go beyond the limit of conventional MOFs, tailor material properties, and …

Multiple approaches to the buildup of asymmetric polyelectrolyte multilayer membranes for efficient water purification

E te Brinke, I Achterhuis, DM Reurink… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The versatility of polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) coatings is very promising for their use as
separation layers in nanofiltration applications. These membranes can for example be …