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Zaibin Wang, Xufeng Wang, Can Hu, Tida Ge, Long Wang, Jianfei Xing, Xiaowei He and Yachuan Zhao
The presence of microplastics in soil has become a significant global concern, posing a threat to environmental, agricultural, and human health. However, the use of various detection methods has led to significant discrepancies in the statistics reported...
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Saleh Ahmed, Katerina Lepkova, Xiao Sun, William D. A. Rickard and Thunyaluk Pojtanabuntoeng
Phenolic-epoxy coatings, which are designed to protect substrates from thermal damage, are widely applied in many fields. There remains an inadequate understanding of how such coatings change during their service life after exposure to various temperatur...
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Mu-Lin Huang, Xue-Mei He, Ming-Yue Du, Peng-Fei Jiang and Xue-Feng Wang
High-temperature and high-pressure (HTHP)-treated diamonds have attracted attention all over the world due to their vivid colors. In order to explore a new method for the rapid and non-destructive identification of HTHP-treated diamonds, in this paper, f...
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Rayanne H. N. Silva, Emanuel P. Magalhães, Rebeca C. Gomes, Yunierkis Perez-Castillo, Alice M. C. Martins and Damião P. de Sousa
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) cause thousands of deaths each year. Among these diseases, we find Chagas disease, whose etiologic agent is Trypanosoma cruzi. Piplartine is an alkamide present in various species of the genus Piper that possess trypano...
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Narjes J. Alamer, Munirah F. Aldayel and Ashraf Khalifa
Plastic pollution is one of the most serious environmental issues, causing severe environmental damage. It is of vital importance to find an efficient and eco-friendly approach to biodegrading plastics. The aim of this study was to isolate and characteri...
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Xiaoyi Lou, Yifan Sui, Qichao Zhang, Changling Fang, Yunyu Tang, Xuan Zhang, Guangxin Yang, Yongfu Shi, Dongmei Huang, Jie Guan and Yaoguang Guo
The removal of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209), as a typical persistent organic pollutant (POP), is of worldwide concern. Mechanochemical (MC) processes are promising methods to degrade environmental pollutants, most of which use a single grinding reag...
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Chiara Concetta Siciliano, Van Minh Dinh, Paolo Canu, Jyri-Pekka Mikkola and Santosh Govind Khokarale
In this study, glutaraldehyde cross-linked chitosan support, as well as the catalysts obtained after loading Ag metal (Ag/Chitosan), were synthesised and applied for adsorption and reduction of phenol red dye in an aqueous solution. The Ag/chitosan catal...
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Maylin Acosta, Isabel Rodríguez-Carretero, José Blasco, José Miguel de Paz and Ana Quiñones
Visible and near-infrared (Vis/NIR) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) was used for rapid and non-destructive determination of macro- and micronutrient contents in persimmon leaves. Hyperspectral images of 687 leaves were acquired in the 500?980 nm range over 6...
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Yalemtsehay Debebe, Esayas Alemayehu, Zemene Worku, Wookeun Bae and Bernd Lennartz
The extensive use of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) pesticide leads to the contamination of surfaces and groundwater. In this respect, it is critical to develop an inexpensive and environmentally friendly adsorbent for 2,4-D-laden agricultural le...
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Guangteng Bai, Juyang Fu, Qian Zhou and Xiangliang Pan
Tire wear particles (TWPs), as a type of thermosetting microplastic (MP), accumulate in aquatic environments due to their wide application in road traffic globally. The increase in temperature because of friction heat may cause aging of tire materials, i...
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