Rare Earth and Platinum Group Elements In Sub-Saharan Africa and Global Health: The Dark Side of the Burgeoning of Technology

C Frazzoli, B Bocca, B Battistini… - Environmental …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite steady progress in the development and promotion of the circular economy as a
model, an overwhelming proportion of technological devices discarded by the Global North …

Pollutant load and ecotoxicological effects of sediment from stormwater retention basins to receiving surface water on Lumbriculus variegatus

JA Kontchou, N Baetz, D Grabner, M Nachev… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The overflow of stormwater retention basins during intense and prolonged precipitation
events may result in the direct input of particulate pollutants and remobilization of already …

Dehydrogenation of ammonia on free-standing and epitaxial hexagonal boron nitride

AJR Payne, NF Xavier, GF Bauerfeldt… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a thermodynamically feasible mechanism for producing H2 from NH3 using hBN
as a catalyst. 2D catalysts have exceptional surface areas with unique thermal and …

Spatiotemporal distribution patterns and risk characteristics of heavy metal pollutants in the soil of lead–zinc mines

J Cao, C **e, Z Hou - Environmental Sciences Europe, 2022 - Springer
Background The current soil environmental assessment system is inadequate in terms of the
spatiotemporal distribution of heavy metal pollutants. This study employed the numerical …