Roosen, Martijn De Somer, Tobias Demets, Ruben Ügdüler, Sibel Meesseman, Valérie Van Gorp, Bart Ragaert, Kim Van Geem, Kevin M Walgraeve, Christophe Dumoulin, Ann
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Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Mechanical recycling is to date the most commonly applied recycling technology. However, mechanical recycling of post-consumer plastics still faces many challenges, such as the presence of odorous constituents. Accordingly, recycling industry is looking for cost-effective solutions to improve the current washing efficiencies. However, scientific li...
Rathnayake, Dilani Rego, Filipe Van Poucke, Reinhart Bridgwater, Anthony V Mašek, Ondřej Meers, Erik Wang, Jiawei Yang, Yang Ronsse, Frederik
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Environmental science and pollution research international
Metal mining and smelting activities can introduce a substantial amount of potentially toxic elements (PTE) into the environment that can persist for an extended period. That can limit the productivity of the land and creates dangerous effects on ecosystem services. The effectiveness of wheat straw biochar to immobilize Cd in contaminated soil due ...
Spathariotis, Stylianos; Peeters, Nand; Ryder, Karl S; Abbott, Andrew P; Binnemans, Koen; 7851; Riano, Sofia; 95406;
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Ma, Y Sikdar, D He, Q Kho, D Kucernak, AR Kornyshev, AA Edel, JB
We propose a nanoplasmonic platform that can be used for sensing trace levels of heavy metals in solutions via simple optical reflectivity measurements. The considered example is a lead sensor, which relies on the lead-mediated assembly of glutathione-functionalized gold nanoparticles (NPs) at a self-healing water/DCE liquid | liquid interface (LLI...
Li, Qiqi Zhong, Huiqiong Cao, Yan
Phosphate rock (PR) and ferric salts have been frequently used to immobilize heavy metal(loid)s in soils, but in varied efficiencies referring to different metal(loid) pollutants. This study explored the effective application of plant ash (PA) to the previous formula of phosphate rock (PR) and ferric salts (Fe(NO3)(3)) (PR + Fe3++PA), compared to o...
Li, Qiqi Zhong, Huiqiong Cao, Yan
Phosphate rock (PR) and ferric salts have been frequently used to immobilize heavy metal(loid)s in soils, but in varied efficiencies referring to different metal(loid) pollutants. This study explored the effective application of plant ash (PA) to the previous formula of phosphate rock (PR) and ferric salts (Fe(NO3)(3)) (PR + Fe3++PA), compared to o...
Shan, Rui Shi, Yueyue Gu, Jing Wang, Yazhuo Yuan, Haoran
Converting peanut shells into biochar by pyrolysis was considered an environmentally friendly and efficient method for agricultural solid waste disposal. The properties of peanut shell-derived biochar (PBC) under different temperature and its adsorption capacity of heavy metals were investigated. It was found that PBC400 exhibited the highest cumul...
Shan, Rui Shi, Yueyue Gu, Jing Wang, Yazhuo Yuan, Haoran
Converting peanut shells into biochar by pyrolysis was considered an environmentally friendly and efficient method for agricultural solid waste disposal. The properties of peanut shell-derived biochar (PBC) under different temperature and its adsorption capacity of heavy metals were investigated. It was found that PBC400 exhibited the highest cumul...
Maksoudian, Christy; 129756; Soenen, Stefaan J; 47115; Susumu, Kimihiro; Oh, Eunkeu; Medintz, Igor L; Manshian, Bella B; 94794;
Despite the progress in nanotechnology for biomedical applications, great efforts are still being employed in optimizing nanoparticle (NP) design parameters to improve functionality and minimize bionanotoxicity. In this study, we developed CdSe/CdS/ZnS core/shell/shell quantum dots (QDs) that are compact ligand-coated and surface-functionalized wit...
Guzman-Rangel, Georgina; Martinez-Villegas, Nadia; Smolders, Erik; 19360;
Isotopically exchangeable metals in soil, also termed labile metals, are reversibly bound to soil surface and are a better index of the environmental risk of the metals than are their total concentrations. In this study, labile fractions of potentially toxic elements were surveyed in metal mining-impacted soils of Mexico to test the relative import...
