New Technology for Monitoring the Biodegradation of Pollutants

Dear Colleagues,

Over time, the world’s environment has become contaminated with different types of pollutants as a result of human activities and the risks associated with their existence. This has inevatably resulted in concomitant consequences for animals, other human beings, and environmental health in general, which are are all factors of particular concern. Varying and different technologies, including biodegradation, have been employed in an attempt to remove these pollutants from the environment. In recent years, several studies were conducted and produced very promising results, proving that biodegradation can be successfully employed to remove these pollutants from the environment and to describe the different methods that can be used to monitor these numerous biodegradation processes.

The current Special Issue will focus on emphasising the timely research studies that address the existing new technologies used to monitor the biodegradation of pollutants. The topics for the Special Issue should include, but are not limited to, the following areas: the different sources of pollutants; their fate and occurrence in the environment; toxicity and risk assessments; different biodegradation methods employed to remove these pollutants from the environment; advances in analytical chemical and bioanalytical techniques for the identification and quantification of pollutants in different environmental matrices, such as water, sediment, soil, air, and biota; and advances in technologies used to assess the processes involved in biodegradation. We invite the authors to submit scientific studies that include original and innovative research papers, reviews, and short communications. 

Dr. Cristina Quintelas
Guest Editor

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