Environmental Occurrence and Transformation Mechanisms of Emerging Contaminants
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 41
Special Issue Editors
Interests: new pollutants; persistent free radicals; analysis; transformation mechanism
Interests: emerging contaminants; environmental occurrence; human exposure; risk assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Extensive human activities have introduced large amounts of synthetic chemicals into the environment. Due to the significant risks they pose to ecosystems and human health, new pollutants such as persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors, antibiotics, and microplastics have attracted widespread attention. Developing advanced analytical methods to identify the environmental presence of new pollutants and elucidate their environmental transformation mechanisms can provide a basis for identifying and predicting environmental pollution and formulating effective control measures.
This Special Issue on “Environmental Occurrence and Transformation Mechanisms of Emerging Contaminants” seeks high-quality work focusing on the latest advances in analysis techniques and mechanisms. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Environmental occurrence of new pollutants;
- Target and nontarget screening analysis of new pollutants;
- Machine learning-based pollution prediction;
- Transformation mechanisms of new pollutants mediated by radicals;
- Formation and transformation mechanisms of persistent free radicals.
Dr. Xiaoyun Liu
Dr. Xiaomeng Ji
Dr. Chi Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- new pollutants
- synthetic chemicals
- environmental occurrence
- target analysis
- nontarget screening
- transformation mechanisms
- persistent free radicals
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