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Industrial waste materials have garnered increased attention as viable adsorbents that could be used for the extraction of heavy metals and organic pollutants from wastewater. This is primarily due to their abundant ...
Emerging pollutants (EPs) provide a new global water quality concern, potentially posing a major damage to human health and the surrounding. Pharmaceuticals, extensively used in both human and veterinary medicine, have ...
The neonicotinoid pesticides (NEOs) have been used over the years for plant protection. The use of these NEOs on crops and oil seed plants has led to vegetable oil and crop produce contamination. The four selected NEOs for ...
Contamination of pet food with heavy metals is a crucial problem worldwide and it results in adverse health effects on pets, massive recall of the product, damaging of the brand name and financial loss. Therefore, researchers ...
Microextraction sample preparation methods are miniaturized formats which contributes to green approaches in Analytical Chemistry. They are mainly characterized by the minimum use of organic solvents.
The aim of this ...
The nanocomposite membranes were fabricated by incorporating palladium
nanoparticles into Nafion® matrix to develop suitable membrane to be used as polymer
electrolyte membrane (PEM) in Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC). ...
Fifteen heterocyclic active pharmaceutical ingredients were co-crystallized with phthalic acid derivatives, resulting in three series of co-crystals. Niacinamide, modified isoniazid (isoniazid modified with benzaldehyde), ...
Chlorination is a widely used chemical disinfection technique in South African water treatment facilities. However, it fails to combat emerging pollutants, drug resistant microbes and carcinogenic by-products, resulting ...
The optimized geometrical structures, the interaction energies, the basis set
superposition errors (BSSEs) and the infrared spectra of the monomers,
homodimers and the molecular complexes formed between BF3 and a number
of ...
Not only does the presence of excessive levels of natural organic matter (NOM) in surface waters affect the raw water quality, but it also impacts the water treatment and supply processes. Other notable challenges caused ...
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) comprises of both synthetic and natural organic compounds such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, natural organic matter (NOM), found in the environment. Most of the DOM pollute drinking water ...
Natural Organic Matter (NOM) is a complex blend of organic compounds that forms naturally via the degradation of plant and animal materials into water sources. NOM in water negatively affects water quality (by causing odor, ...
Solar-to-thermal energy is considered to be the most direct way of converting solar radiation
into usable forms of energy for a wide range of applications, including seawater desalination,
heating water, photocatalysis, ...
The continuously rising cases of antibiotic resistance and pathogenic bacterial mutations pose a serious medical problem. Microorganisms are ubiquitous because they can adapt to conditions in any environment. They can ...
Anti-androgens (AAs) are a class of pharmaceutical drugs used to treat prostate cancer. Over the years, prostate cancer has been reported as the most frequent cancer diagnosis in men and the leading cause of mortality ...
The p53 gene is a well-known tumour suppressor gene, shown to be dysfunctional in more than 50% of human malignancies. The cellular significance of this oncogene is evident in a series of diverse cellular antiproliferation ...
South Africa is classified as a water-stressed country and is faced with widespread water scarcity. Water scarcity is worse in rural areas of the country where a third of the population still reside. This is due to low ...
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Cellulose polymers with multidentate chelating functionalities that have high efficiency for toxic metal ions present in water were designed, synthesized, ...