Chemical Distribution of Particulate-Bound Heavy Metals and Its Impact on Health Risk Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

Heavy metals are a group of important environmental pollutants. Particles enriched with heavy metals originate from both natural and anthropogenic sources (mainly industrial plants, power industry, heating in residential sectors, and road transport). High toxicity, environmental stability, non-degradability, and their susceptibility to bioaccumulation are the origins of unwavering interest in environmental pollution with heavy metals. The Scopus database has registered over 700 articles with the terms “chemical fractionation” AND “heavy metals” AND “soil” in titles, abstracts or keywords, and over 100 articles with “chemical fractionation” AND “heavy metals” AND “particulate matter”. There has also been a change in the approach to human health risk assessment. Increasingly, the dose of heavy metals received is determined on the basis of chemical fractionation results.

This Special Issue intends to present the current research on chemical fractionation and operational speciation of particulate-bound heavy metals, and the possibility of using the results of these studies for human health risk assessment. Authors are kindly invited to submit original research papers, reviews, and short communications.

Prof. Dr. Ryszard Świetlik
Guest Editor

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