Recent progress in green thin film membrane based materials for desalination: Design, properties and applications

S Raza, A Hayat, T Bashir, E Ghasali, AAA Hafez… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
The urgent need for sustainable solutions to address freshwater scarcity has encouraged
significant research interest in green thin film membrane-based materials (GTFM) for …

Graphene oxide as an emerging sole adsorbent and photocatalyst: Chemistry of synthesis and tailoring properties for removal of emerging contaminants

S Thakur, A Bi, S Mahmood, S Sharma, O Ruzimuradov… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) contain a wide range of compounds, such as
pharmaceutical waste, pesticides, herbicides, industrial chemicals, organic dyes, etc. Their …

High valent manganese-oxo species activation of peroxymonosulfate by different phases manganese oxides nanoplates for catalytic water decontamination

A Li, B Li, LM Sun, LX Liu, C Liu, YM Dong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Advanced oxidation processes involving high-valent metal-oxo species have garnered
increasing attention for their effective pollutant degradation in water. However, less is known …

Metal tolerance and biosorption capacities of bacterial strains isolated from an urban watershed

G Pagnucco, D Overfield, Y Chamlee… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Rapid industrialization and urbanization have led to widespread metal contamination in
aquatic ecosystems. This study explores the metal tolerance and biosorption characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] Biodegradation of polyvinyl chloride using vermibacteria under variable physicochemical conditions

S Andleeb, M Munir, MI Ali, K Imdad… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2025 - Elsevier
Plastic has a significant hazard to the environment, but its impact could be mitigated through
degradation processes. Biodegradation of plastic wastes by using microorganisms is an …

Revealing the hidden threats: Genotoxic effects of microplastics on freshwater fish

M Menezes, FT de Mello, L Ziegler, B Wanderley… - Aquatic Toxicology, 2024 - Elsevier
New evidence regarding the risks that microplastics (MP) ingestion pose to human and
wildlife health are being revealed with progress made in ecotoxicological research …

Occurrence of micropollutants in rural domestic wastewater in Zhejiang Province, China and corresponding wastewater-based epidemiology analysis

L Qiang, Y Chisheng, C Kaiyin, Y Hamid… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
By 2021, rural regions in China were occupied by over 500 million residents, generating an
annual volume of 19.5 billion m 3 of rural domestic wastewater (RDW). This study aimed to …

Remarkable photocatalytic activity of MWCs supported on PVF in recycling, solar and photodegradation processes for commercial dyes and real industrial wastewater

HM Abumelha, R Pashameah, AAA Sari… - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents an in-depth evaluation of polyvinylidene fluoride/multi-walled carbon
nanotubes/titanium dioxide (PVF-x% MWCs-x% TiO 2) nanocomposites, synthesized using …

Improving evaluation of groundwater heavy metal (loid) s pollution efficiencies: Insights from novel Shannon entropy-weight and one-way ANOVA analysis

I Khan, R Umar - Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explores the hydrogeochemical behaviour of heavy metal (loid) s [HMs] in
groundwater, their seasonal variations in enrichment and depletion, and adverse effects on …

Recent advances and future trends in metal oxide photocatalysts for removal of pharmaceutical pollutants from wastewater: a comprehensive review

PN Thanh, VD Phung, TBH Nguyen - Environmental Geochemistry and …, 2024 - Springer
The rapid and widespread increase in pharmaceutical micropollutants (PMPs) poses a
significant and immediate threat to ecosystems and human health globally. With the demand …