Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Micropollutants and Degradation Dynamics
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 2007
Special Issue Editors
Interests: degradation of pharmaceutics; activated sludge; microbial functional diversity; biosorption of xenobiotics; toxicity of pharmaceutics to microorganisms
Interests: aromatic compounds; biodegradation; immobilization; oxygenases; non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; bacteria; bacterial fatty acids
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Dear Colleagues,
With the development of medicine, pharmaceutical production and consumption have increased yearly. Since they are not broken down in the bodies of humans and animals treated pharmacologically, they eventually end up in sewage and the environment. The list of drugs identified in water and soil is constantly expanding. Although they are detected at micro concentrations, pharmaceuticals as biologically active compounds can threaten the proper functioning of biocenoses. We encourage researchers to submit original research papers and review articles, stimulating further efforts to develop strategies to reduce environmental pollution with pharmaceuticals and help to remove them from contaminated sites.
Topics of interest in the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Impact of pharmaceuticals on the environment;
- Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) as effective methods for pharmaceutical removal;
- Sewage treatment processes (STPs) for pharmaceutical removal;
- Development of new methods for enhanced pharmaceutical degradation;
- Biotransformation and biodegradation of pharmaceuticals;
- Analysis of bioproducts from physicochemical and biological conversions of pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Agnieszka Nowak
Dr. Urszula Guzik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pharmaceuticals
- microorganisms
- toxicity
- micropollutants
- biodegradation
- biotransformation
- advanced oxidation processes
- analysis
- intermediate identification
- chromatography
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