Sludge is an inevitable by product of sewage treatment, and it includes pathogens, heavy
metals, organic pollutants and other toxic substances. The components of sludge are …

Over the last 30 years, the optical property community has shifted from conducting dissolved
organic matter (DOM) measurements on new complex mixtures in natural and engineered …

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), with a stratified structure including tightly-bound
EPS (TB-EPS), loosely-bound EPS (LB-EPS), and soluble EPS (S-EPS) surrounding the …

The pollution or eutrophication affected by dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition and
sources of inland waters had attracted concerns from the public and government in China …

Plastic debris is accumulating in agricultural land due to the increased use of plastic
mulches, which is causing serious environmental problems, especially for biochemical and …

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a critical role in determining the quality of wastewater
and the safety of drinking water. This is the first review to compare two types of popular DOM …

Advances in spectroscopic techniques have led to an increase in the use of optical
properties (absorbance and fluorescence) to assess dissolved organic matter (DOM) …

Understanding the processes that are driving variation of natural microbial communities
across space or time is a major challenge for ecologists. Environmental conditions strongly …

PARAllel FACtor analysis (PARAFAC) is increasingly used to decompose fluorescence
excitation emission matrices (EEMs) into their underlying chemical components. In the ideal …

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is the precursor of disinfection by-products (DBPs) which is
widely found in the aquatic environment. The analysis of DOM in raw water is helpful to …