Degradation of Drugs and Organic Pollutants in Wastewater
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 5787
Special Issue Editor
Interests: terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecotoxicity; water treatment; emerging contaminants; rare earth elements (REE); human and environmental health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging contaminants (EC) and regulated organic pollutants have gained a great deal of attention worldwide. In recent decades, both emerging (e.g., drugs and personal care products), organic pollutants (e.g., polychlorinated biphenyls, Hexachlorocyclohexane), and their degradation products play a new global water quality challenge, with potential to pose a serious threat to human health and ecosystems. For this reason, numerous researchers are focusing their efforts to: i) identify, detect, and quantify the distribution of point and diffuse sources of emerging and organic pollutants in water systems; ii) develop analytical tools for their quantitative determination and the identification of degradation products; iii) investigate the degradation/removal under various conditions; iv) evaluate the toxicity and/or environmental risk of degradation products (more or less hazardous than their parent compounds).
This Special Issue will comprise research papers, short communications, and reviews related to the current level of understanding for the fate of degradation products of emerging and organic pollutants. Manuscripts dedicated to new advancements and trends of analytical approaches in environmental matrices, treatment technologies, green analytical chemistry, as well as ecotoxicological impacts on both terrestrial and aquatic organisms are welcome.
I warmly invite our colleagues to submit their original contributions to this Special Issue in order to provide a broad overview of the potential approaches for understanding of the chemical fate and characteristics of pollutants and their derivatives in the environment.
Dr. Antonietta Siciliano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- one health
- monitoring
- transformation products
- by-products
- analytical methods
- ecotoxicity