Nanoparticles provide new opportunities in merging therapeutics and new materials, with
current research efforts just beginning to scratch the surface of their diverse benefits and …

There has been an increasing number of studies in magnetic nanoparticles with auspicious
applications in medicine. Among the oxides of magnetic nanoparticles, iron oxide has …

Many of the devastating pandemics and outbreaks of the 20th and 21st centuries have
involved enveloped viruses, including influenza, HIV, SARS, MERS, and Ebola. However …

The challenge to achieve appropriate disinfection without forming harmful disinfection
byproducts by conventional chemical disinfectants, as well as the growing demand for …

Understanding and predicting colloid transport and retention in water‐saturated porous
media is important for the protection of human and ecological health. Early applications of …

Zero-valent iron nanoparticles (nano-Fe0) in aqueous solution rapidly inactivated
Escherichia coli. A strong bactericidal effect of nano-Fe0 was found under deaerated …

Minimizing the spread of viruses in the environment is the first defence line when fighting
outbreaks and pandemics, but the current COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how difficult …

Nanoscale zero-valent iron (NZVI) particles were investigated in inactivating gram-positive
Bacillus subtilis var. niger and gram-negative Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria, and the …

An understanding of the transport and survival of microbial pathogens (pathogens hereafter)
in agricultural settings is needed to assess the risk of pathogen contamination to water and …

This review quantitatively examines a number of published studies that evaluated survival
and inactivation of public-health-related microorganisms in groundwater. Information from …