Health-relevant microorganisms present in natural surface waters and engineered treatment
systems that are exposed to sunlight can be inactivated by a complex set of interacting …

Beach sand is a habitat that supports many microbes, including viruses, bacteria, fungi and
protozoa (micropsammon). The apparently inhospitable conditions of beach sand …

A nonphotochemical generation of singlet oxygen (1O2) using potassium periodate (KIO4)
in alkaline condition (pH> 8) was investigated for selective oxidation of aqueous organic …

Singlet oxygen (1O2) plays an important role in the inactivation of pathogens and the
degradation of organic contaminants. The present study looks at the surface steady-state …

Two aquatic fulvic acids and one soil humic acid were irradiated to examine the resulting
changes in the redox and photochemical properties of the humic substances (HS), the …

Ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV-LED) is an emerging UV source with many special
features due to the nature of semiconductor devices. One such feature is wavelength …

Prairie pothole lakes (PPLs) are glacially derived, ecologically important water bodies found
in central North America and represent a unique setting in which extensive agriculture …

This study evaluates the potential application of tin porphyrin-and C60 aminofullerene-
derivatized silica (SnP/silica and aminoC60/silica) as 1O2 generating systems for …

The negative energy balance of wastewater treatment could be reversed if anaerobic
technologies were implemented for organic carbon oxidation and phototrophic technologies …

Solar water disinfection (SODIS) is one the cheapest and most suitable treatments to
produce safe drinking water at the household level in resource-poor settings. This review …