[HTML][HTML] Parabens as emerging contaminants: Environmental persistence, current practices and treatment processes

F Vale, CA Sousa, H Sousa, L Santos… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The unmatched levels of water contamination by emerging contaminants (ECs), such as
endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and pharmaceuticals, has become a relevant …

[HTML][HTML] Parabens removal from wastewaters by microalgae–Ecotoxicity, metabolism and pathways

C Maia, CA Sousa, H Sousa, F Vale… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The presence of emerging contaminants (ECs) in aquatic systems and, particularly, in
wastewater (WW) has become a major concern over the past years. Among these …

[HTML][HTML] Solar photocatalytic degradation of parabens using UiO-66-NH2

M Peñas-Garzón, MJ Sampaio, YL Wang… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The photocatalytic degradation of methylparaben was investigated under simulated solar
light using a synthesised metal–organic framework (UiO-66-NH 2). For that purpose, the …

Do** strategy-tuned non-radical pathway on manganese oxide for catalytic degradation of parabens

X Wang, X Bi, N Yao, G Elmaci, AS Ertürk, Q Lv… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-radical oxidation processes with singlet oxygen (1 O 2) and mediated electron transfer
have emerged as efficient methods for the selective degradation of aqueous pollutants in …

Nickel–iron-driven heterogenous bio-electro-fenton process for the degradation of methylparaben

R Raj, SM Sathe, S Das, MM Ghangrekar - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Discharge of emerging contaminants such as parabens in natural water bodies is a grievous
concern. Among parabens, methylparaben (MP) is most prevalent due to its extensive usage …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced photocatalytic degradation of paraben preservative over designed g-C3N4/BiVO4 S-scheme system and toxicity assessment

C Hu, M Tian, L Wu, L Chen - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Paraben preservatives have been listed as emerging pollutants due to their ubiquity in
various environmental matrices, especially the water bodies. How to efficiently and …

Bi modified oxidized tubular carbon nitride with high-yield singlet oxygen for propylparaben degradation: Implication for a novel oxygen activation mechanism

YW Li, SZ Li, LY Liu, ZF Zhang, WL Ma - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The separation of electron-hole was the challenge in photocatalytic oxidation technology. In
this study, Bi-OxTCN photocatalyst was prepared by introducing oxygen-containing …

Phenolic compounds degradation: Insight into the role and evidence of oxygen vacancy defects engineering on nanomaterials

A Kumar, P Raizada, AAP Khan, VH Nguyen… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Oxygen vacancy as a typical point defect has incited substantial interest in photocatalysis
due to its profound impact on optical absorption response and facile isolation of …

Sorghum straw carbon assisted preparation of thin-sheet like BiOCl with boosted photocatalytic activity toward detoxification of three contaminants

B Wang, J Chen, J Zhong, J Li, Y Zhu - Applied Surface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, a one-pot hydrothermal method was employed to fabricate sorghum straw
carbon (SSC) modified BiOCl catalysts. SSC not only operates as a template agent to …

Synergistic adsorption of organic pollutants on weathered polyethylene microplastics

V Budhiraja, A Urh, P Horvat, A Krzan - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microplastics (MPs) are persistent tiny pieces of plastic material in the environment that are
capable of adsorbing environmental organic pollutants from their surroundings. The …