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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract Background Cellulose polymers with multidentate chelating functionalities that have high efficiency for toxic metal ions present in water were designed, synthesized, ...